▲ 563 ▼ RFK Jr. defends $500M cut for mRNA vaccines with pseudoscience gobbledygook (arstechnica.com) submitted 1 year ago by Sludgehammer@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world 52 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] Erasmus@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (5 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] parody@lemmings.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children) Suddenly wishing big pharma were better friends with and getting bigger handouts from the admin WHATTT is this world permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Erasmus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago The problem is that biotech and pharma are much more directly involved in and constrained by actual science and data, which the orangeboi regime is highly allergic to. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ilovecheese@feddit.uk 1 point 1 year ago There's more money to be made selling meds to sick people than preventing people getting sick. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies) [–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) But even then it makes no sense! The rich aren’t immune to disease… I don’t even know who is meant to make money on this shit permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world [S] 2 points 1 year ago Right but the rich will still have real doctors with real medicine on call (or they can just travel to a country with real medicine). When Mao Zedong unified thousands of years of quackery and superstition into "Traditional Chinese Medicine" to placate the masses need for healthcare, he kept real doctors on hand, because he knew it was all bunk. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] parody@lemmings.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children) Suddenly wishing big pharma were better friends with and getting bigger handouts from the admin WHATTT is this world permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Erasmus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago The problem is that biotech and pharma are much more directly involved in and constrained by actual science and data, which the orangeboi regime is highly allergic to. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ilovecheese@feddit.uk 1 point 1 year ago There's more money to be made selling meds to sick people than preventing people getting sick. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies)
[+] Erasmus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago The problem is that biotech and pharma are much more directly involved in and constrained by actual science and data, which the orangeboi regime is highly allergic to. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago The problem is that biotech and pharma are much more directly involved in and constrained by actual science and data, which the orangeboi regime is highly allergic to. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ilovecheese@feddit.uk 1 point 1 year ago There's more money to be made selling meds to sick people than preventing people getting sick. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) But even then it makes no sense! The rich aren’t immune to disease… I don’t even know who is meant to make money on this shit permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world [S] 2 points 1 year ago Right but the rich will still have real doctors with real medicine on call (or they can just travel to a country with real medicine). When Mao Zedong unified thousands of years of quackery and superstition into "Traditional Chinese Medicine" to placate the masses need for healthcare, he kept real doctors on hand, because he knew it was all bunk. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world [S] 2 points 1 year ago Right but the rich will still have real doctors with real medicine on call (or they can just travel to a country with real medicine). When Mao Zedong unified thousands of years of quackery and superstition into "Traditional Chinese Medicine" to placate the masses need for healthcare, he kept real doctors on hand, because he knew it was all bunk. permalink fedilink source parent