Anno domini 2021 Fri, 26 Nov 15:33:11 -0500 Ken Dibble scripsit: > On 11/26/21 1:57 PM, d...@d404.nl wrote: > > On 26-11-2021 17:27, goli...@devuan.org 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 > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Dng mailing list > >> Dng@lists.dyne.org > >> https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dng mailing list > > Dng@lists.dyne.org > > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
