Ah, how does your data compare to the NSF's data? The NSF has companies paying for $35 billion worth of R&D research in 2005. Also keep in mind that its costs a company 500 million to 1 billion in clinical trials *after* a new drug has been found, which in itself is extremely risky. I'd rather have greedy cold hearted money men deciding how best to spend this nation's wealth on drug research than some government bureaucrat who doesn't get fired if he blows a few billion on a really stupid idea.
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf07335/
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Ah, how does your data compare to the NSF's data? The NSF has companies paying for $35 billion worth of R&D research in 2005. Also keep in mind that its costs a company 500 million to 1 billion in clinical trials *after* a new drug has been found, which in itself is extremely risky. I'd rather have greedy cold hearted money men deciding how best to spend this nation's wealth on drug research than some government bureaucrat who doesn't get fired if he blows a few billion on a really stupid idea. http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf07335/