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by RiceRichardJ 1004 days ago
The marketing team for a protein shake is not making billions. If you mean the CEO and shareholders then you can’t compare them to scientists chasing grants, that’s not an apples to apples comparison.
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Think your head is in the sand a little bit.

It is just anecdotal but:

All the researchers I know are driving old used cars and scraping by. Nobody is rich.

All the big firm researchers/marketers I know are living very comfortable upper class lives, and don't want to jeopardize that with any 'counter findings'.

How hard is this to understand:

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor