Max Kennerly on Nostr: An open secret of big pharma is that the bulk of their "innovation" is ...

An open secret of big pharma is that the bulk of their "innovation" is trivial—they're mostly generating analogues to evade patents—and the real breakthroughs are always mostly/entirely government initiated and funded, then handed to private companies for rent-seeking.

https://prospect.org/health/2023-10-18-nih-how-to-become-billionaire-program/