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by DougWebb 1002 days ago
The problem isn't that the drug results don't translate from mice to humans. The problem is that after testing the drug successfully in mice, they follow that with testing the marketing campaign with the mice. The mice never buy the drug, so they decide to drop it as unprofitable and move on to another drug.
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I think the issue isn’t about mice demand, it’s more that mice have notoriously awful insurance coverage.
They also have a live fast, die young risk taking culture that isn’t big on health awareness. I mean, they come into my kitchen at night even though I am actively trying to murder them.
"Live fast, die young, bad mice do it well..."