There are only a few thousand drug candidates being studied in the US. Total. Including in-vitro.
The pipeline is tiny, ultimately because the pharma industry is an oligopoly.
“They haven’t found a drug that does X” really, really does not mean “a motivated and intelligent wealthy donor couldn’t cause someone to find a drug that does X.” It does mean that, short of making some really big political changes, it’s hard to profit on finding such a drug or distribute it at mass scale.
I don’t know where I got that last sentence; that’s clearly bogus. If you knew that a certain drug, target, or research strategy was going to work, of course you could profit off it. That is literally what the biotech industry does.
I’m not sure what past-you meant here, but, one thing you might think is “the amount of hurdles you have to jump through to profit off drugs is ‘hard’, i.e. you (unnecessarily) need to be very well funded and well connected company that can navigate bureaucratic hurdles”, and it’s not that you can’t do it. It’s just, like, “hard”, ya know?
There are only a few thousand drug candidates being studied in the US. Total. Including in-vitro.
The pipeline is tiny, ultimately because the pharma industry is an oligopoly.
“They haven’t found a drug that does X” really, really does not mean “a motivated and intelligent wealthy donor couldn’t cause someone to find a drug that does X.” It does mean that, short of making some really big political changes, it’s hard to profit on finding such a drug or distribute it at mass scale.
I don’t know where I got that last sentence; that’s clearly bogus. If you knew that a certain drug, target, or research strategy was going to work, of course you could profit off it. That is literally what the biotech industry does.
I’m not sure what past-you meant here, but, one thing you might think is “the amount of hurdles you have to jump through to profit off drugs is ‘hard’, i.e. you (unnecessarily) need to be very well funded and well connected company that can navigate bureaucratic hurdles”, and it’s not that you can’t do it. It’s just, like, “hard”, ya know?