This #LAMF thread at #reddit is absolutely brutal.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/s/cyonyntN6R
The physician / healthcare professional threads will be pure blood and gore when the #LAMF moments come for the field: no one is used to seeing cuts in the absolute amount of dollars they receive.
@ChristosArgyrop Apropos of this, Christos, why aren't pharma stocks tanking? My premise would be that much of #BigPharma's capital is devoted to collecting economic rents off our regime of prohibitive drug regulation — specifically, the immense costs of registration trials. Why wouldn't the undermining of a stable [scientific] basis for FDA also undermine the valuations of these companies?
@dcnorris @ChristosArgyrop Why aren’t all stocks tanking? I’m struggling to see how any of his executive orders are “good for the economy”.
@auscandoc A fair question to be sure, but I am trying to pose a more sharply defined #scientific hypothesis. For example, maybe the answer to my question falsifies my premise about what undergirds the value of Big Pharma's capital investments.
@ChristosArgyrop