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But What Do They Cost Outside of Medicine?

Dec 29, 2006

A Christmas day post on Slashdot has sparked a lively debate with comments growing ever longer and more boisterous. At issue: an editorial from Nobel winner Joseph Stiglitz, an economist who rails against the concept of drug patents in the British Medical Journal. The anonymous author of the post claims that "in medicine, patents cost lives."

And from the silver lining department: just look at all those lives being saved by the dismal success rate most pharmas are seeing in getting drugs to market.

 

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