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by jorams 722 days ago
> R&D is one thing, but most drugs fail at the clinical trial stage. This money (hundreds of millions per drug) is just gone, unlike R&D which might result in new tech or at least a patent.

Are you saying the clinical trial stage is somehow not part of R&D spending? It sounds like quite obviously research to me, but I'm not familiar with how it's actually reported.