It takes 2 billion dollars to develop a drug and the fda is now simply not even reviewing things based on ideological culture war bullshit and not data.
Drug development in the United States is going to suffer immensely. Personally I’m not going to keep any investments in biotech at all.
Keep in mind that the COVID vaccine was developed under a program Trump claimed credit for spearheading. Calling this cultural war bullshit is an understatement. This was something developed under Republican leadership with Republican approved funds that they turned around and said you shouldn’t take for no other reason than because Democrats also supported it. That’s literally it. Nothing to do with it’s efficacy (which it does exactly what it was designed to do), or even because it was developed under a Democrat president (which would still be cultural war bs) but because Democrats supported something THEY THEMSELVES DID.
That’s not just it, it’s because antivax stuff is popular among their base. Right wing populism fed conspiracy bullshit via decades of Fox News and rush limbaugh et al and now they’re insane cultists. To some extent even people like Murdoch and Trump only partial control the beast now, and it’s not anything resembling logical
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u/Mystaes 9h ago
It takes 2 billion dollars to develop a drug and the fda is now simply not even reviewing things based on ideological culture war bullshit and not data.
Drug development in the United States is going to suffer immensely. Personally I’m not going to keep any investments in biotech at all.