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Rebecca Brown's avatar

Thank you! Our entire society has an issue with false dichotomies and that is certainly on full display with conspiritualists. Most things aren't either/or but yes/and. I too have been kept alive by big pharms and they are also greedy bas*****. Too many people think it has to be one or the other! I love the podcast, by the way.

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Michael Hayward's avatar

Big Pharma shill here and you’re spot on. While we scientists in the trenches will never be filthy rich, we can make a decent living in a pretty volatile field. Our academic colleagues that are funded by govt grants lay the path for our drug development. Like it or not, the profit motive drives incredible discoveries, like the newest forms of cancer treatments (car-T, keytruda, etc), rheumatoid arthritis, HepC and AIDS. We love what we do for society and it permeates our daily work lives. There are plenty of evil executives in every industry but that doesn’t mean lives that could be saved have to be sacrificed for a pure economic philosophy.

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