Everybody that I’ve encountered in my former career as a pharmaceutical executive are out there with their hands out. Everybody’s begging for money. Nobody has any money. The government doesn’t have any money. Universities don’t have money. The only ones that have money are these multinational corporations. And they have lots of money. And they use that money to basically buy influence. And the way it’s done is you give these organizations and institutions grants for various kinds of research. You develop research together with them. You establish friends. You make sure that they become beholden to you.
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