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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Midgley wrote: > On Tuesday 01 July 2003 00:04, you wrote: > > >>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/31472.html >> >>It's rather long but makes scary reading. > > It is not entirely accurate. In what way? The "billions" to develop new drugs is an overstatement, the manufacturers only claim an average of 800,000,000 USD, since they also claim it costs 100's of USD for medical tests that cost about a tenth of that retail in the UK, and 10's of dollars to manufacture medicines that are turned out at a few cent each by Indian manufacturers, the real cost of developing a new medicine is probably only a small fraction of the figure they quote, but I dare say it is a lot more expensive to develop than most software, certainly judging by the quality of most software (my own included), but than most software doesn't have the same sort of consequences when it fails. But nothing else lept out at me an inaccurate. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/AWydGFXfHI9FVgYRAhvmAKCaNTmu4rBelrWUhQ9gK7z6J1LzTwCeJUu/ hS2lXHcXHcKDi1lFg1AsKns= =sX9k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.