[ceejayoz]

The industry spends more on marketing - bombarding daytime TV with “ask your doctor about dksieiddjievan” for example - than R&D.

[gruez]

Source? Apparently such claims are questionable:

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/16472/do-typica...

[ceejayoz]

That’s largely a quibble over where the line between “sales” and “marketing” is drawn.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/11/big-p...

[gruez]

How does that article add to the discussion in any way? It's just repeating the same infographic that's in the stackexchange post, and is seemingly making the same mistake of rounding off "Selling, marketing, and administrative" in financial reports to "sales and marketing".

[s1artibartfast]

This is true, but marketing is revenue positive and R&D is revenue negative.