@rebeccawatson As someone who has worked in the pharmaceutical industry in her other life I find the notion to use drug development as a win for capitalism extremely bizarre. The profit motive is so harshly at odds with the nature of research, as you demonstrate in your article: low chances of success at the base level means nobody would invest in base research. And there are many rare diseases that aren't researched at all by the pharma industry because the resulting sales would be too small.
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