What if we took 1% of global military spending ($27.2B/year) and used it to actually save lives? 10.7 billion deaths averted. The maths checks out. The species does not.
Think by Numbers runs cost-benefit analyses for a species that spends $604 on weapons for every $1 on clinical trials. We suspect a math error.
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Drug development costs increased 105x since 1962. Before regulations, drugs cost $24.7M to develop. Now it's $2.6 billion. The pills haven't gotten 105 times better.
The FDA's efficacy testing kills 3,070 people for every 1 it saves. 102 million dead since 1962. That's 17 Holocausts, but with better paperwork.
Stage 1 costs 10 cents per patient. Stage 2 costs $929. Traditional trials cost $41,000. That's a 44x reduction. The drugs don't know the difference.
6,650 diseases have zero FDA-approved treatments. Pragmatic trials cost $929 vs $41,000. Scale them up and you get $0.84 per DALY. That's cheaper than a Mars bar. Why haven't we done this?
86% of patients are excluded from clinical trials. 95% of rare diseases have zero FDA-approved treatments. The Right to Trial Act says: what if sick people could try things? Controversial.
World GDP is $127.8 trillion divided by 7.3 billion people equals $17,500 per person. Money is collective hallucination. Before money we traded chickens for cows. Much more efficient now.
cos(b) can't be both square and a trigonometric function. Cosby's geometry fails in three dimensions, possibly four.