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 Originally Posted by wufwugy
I'm curious: who pays for it and do they get the money?
The public through taxation. The researchers get the money through grants that go through peer-review, just like NIH and NSF grants in the US.
Here's the thing: that research is not incentivized to make money, it's incentivized to be good for society as a whole. So, rather than creating drugs and then trying to create a market for said drugs (which I understand is a large part of what big pharma does in the US), they focus on things that actually help society.
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