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by albert180 953 days ago
Except that most of the research part gets done by public universities. They just do the approval studies
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Private doesn't beat public "massively" but probably comes out around 2:1. I'd say that's "solidly" but certainly not all the way to "massively". Further, that's a lot of public money, and there are plenty of private drugs that came out of that money.
> They just do the approval studies

Idea, meet execution.