On 11/26/21 3:59 PM, dng@??? wrote:
> On 26-11-2021 21:53, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via Dng wrote:
>> Anno domini 2021 Fri, 26 Nov 15:33:11 -0500
>>   Ken Dibble scripsit:
>>> On 11/26/21 1:57 PM, dng@??? wrote:
>>>> On 26-11-2021 17:27, golinux@??? wrote:
>>>>> On 2021-11-26 05:08, Peter Duffy wrote:
>>>>>> It's a bit like the charlatans and fake doctors in past centuries.
>>>>>> They'd invent an illness, and then claim to have a remedy for it:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/marthambles
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> LOL! Isn't that exactly what big pharma is still doing with direct
>>>>> marketing to consumers of their latest "cure" for a newly discovered
>>>>> "disease"?
>>>>>
>>>>> golinux
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>>>> Well, big pharma does do some research and sometimes come with new and
>>>> useful medication. But it is true that they spend more on marketing
>>>> than on research.
>>>>
>>>> Grtz
>>>>
>>>> Nick
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>>> I am not trying to create problems of any type.  I would honestly like
>>> the source of the claim that big pharma spends more on marketing
>>> than on
>>> research, before I repeat it, and am left without a defense.
>> 5% R&D, 45% Marketing, 50% profit - at least these were the last
>> published numbers. Sorry, I just have a source in german:
>> https://www.amazon.de/Lizenz-Pl%C3%BCndern-multilaterale-Abkommen-Investitionen/dp/3434530177
>>
>>
>> This book ist not the newest, but it has valid numbers. And both
>> authors have quite a name :)
>>
>> Nik
>>
>>>
>>> Ken
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> This is reasonable recent
> https://www.pharmacychecker.com/askpc/pharma-marketing-research-development/
>
> Grtz
>
> Nick
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Thank You.


That is both sad and scary.


Ken