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RFK Jr. defends $500M cut for mRNA vaccines with pseudoscience gobbledygook (arstechnica.com)
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[–] parody@lemmings.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Suddenly wishing big pharma were better friends with and getting bigger handouts from the admin WHATTT is this world

[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If only they’d paid the piper…

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

The problem is that biotech and pharma are much more directly involved in and constrained by actual science and data, which the orangeboi regime is highly allergic to.

[–] ilovecheese@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

There's more money to be made selling meds to sick people than preventing people getting sick.