b-b-b-b-but without a profit motive there can be no innovation!

I don’t, lol

maybe not drug discovery but my fever dream showed me a world where there are thousands of comrade chemists and pharmacists making and freely distributing already-known pharmaceuticals to people who need them, free of charge

drug discovery can and should continue to be done via public funding after the pharmaceutical companies are nationalized. this was also a scene from my dream.

open source pharmapunk scene should be a thing. hell it could be a thing already for all I know

this has been going on a long time. usually they’ll just tweak the release mechanism or the dosage form and get a new patent. this is just an even more galling example when you consider the difference in side effect profiles here. truly despicable.

so fucking funny that these dweebs left reddit all in a self-righteous huff only to let that experience inform their efforts to build an even worse version of it