[Gllug] Regarding priracy (sic)

[Bernard Peek]

In message <1047034110.16861.6.camel at harwood.home>, John Hearns 
<john.hearns at cern.ch> writes
>On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 10:25, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
>
>>
>> A business that doesn't stand up to economic scrutiny, either.  The
>> business of discovering drugs is heavily subsidised by government who
>> provides the funds for the basic research on which the entire process
>> rests.
>
>A great deal of basic research in the UK is funded by charities,
>such as the Cancer Research Fund, British Heart Foundation, MS Research
>Trust.

Not to mention the Wellcome Foundation.

Although a lot of the research is carried out in university labs that 
doesn't mean that it's government funded. University labs are largely 
funded by industry and charities (who are partly funded by industry).




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