Comment Re:Science? (Score 1) 84
Don't twist the words, the exact quote is:
We are funded to do research for the public good, yet prevented from taking our discoveries to the marketplace where they could be developed into new medicines.
So he does not say "funded by the public", but "funded [...] for the public good", etc.
Based on the actual quote you can give an argument for that this person is still an ass. Indeed, large parts of the funding are from the public, and therefore any inventions^H, ahum, discoveries(!) should be "returned" to the public immediately. There is still a market, medicines can be made from non-patented discoveries. If this is not possible, we are even in deeper shit that I thought.