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sanxiyn on Dec 11, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Capital Is No Longer Scarce

> The return on investment for a cancer cure is probably small.

This must be a joke. Lipitor generated $125 billion revenue for Pfizer while in patent. A cancer cure will be worth more.

robotresearcher on Dec 11, 2015 [–]

And the costs were what? And the costs of all the failed projects were what?

Your reply says nothing about ROI without that information.

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