The good folks at The Economist have discovered that, "There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research."
This is what happens when you set up a system that provides enormous rewards for rent-seeking and other unproductive behavior. It's kind of Econ 101, and it's why economist, in the abstract, at least, think that rent-seeking is a bad thing.
We need to get the huge sums of money out of medicine. It literally kills people.
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