<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">On Fri, Nov 6, 2026 at 5:38 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrot</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg8287263918194440273"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_8287263918194440273WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"> </span></i><span class="m_8287263918194440273gmaildefault"><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>></span> </span></i></span><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Ours is the second worst system for supporting medical research, better only than everything else.  </span></i><u></u><u></u></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>…Obviously that is dead wrong</span></b><span class="m_8287263918194440273gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">.</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> Denmark has a <span class="m_8287263918194440273gmaildefault"><u>VASTLY</u> </span>superior system<span class="m_8287263918194440273gmaildefault">, as does every technological nation on the planet. <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span></span></b><b style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>USA is in dead last at medical research, right John? </i></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>You are not playing fair because that is not what I said.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span> You claimed<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>that for mysterious<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>reasons<u> you were never able to articulate</u><span class="gmail_default" style="">, whatever country that does the most medical research the consumers of that country, <u>and them alone,</u> must pay for the <u>entire</u> research and development and manufacturing costs of <u>every</u> drug in existence, even for drugs that were researched, developed and manufactured entirely in Denmark.  </span></b></font><b style="background-color:transparent;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span class="gmail_default">So I said:  </span><span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></div><div class="msg8287263918194440273"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_8287263918194440273WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></b></p></div></div></div><div><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"</span>If you were right (and of course you are <span class="gmail_default"><u>NOT</u></span>)<span class="gmail_default"> then compelling medical research to come to the US would be an <u>extremely stupid thing to do</u> because the end result of it would be American consumers would be poorer, would die younger and do so in greater pain. Fuck that, do medical research someplace else!"</span></b></div><div><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></b></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>And I stand<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>by what I said<span class="gmail_default" style=""> 100%.</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span></b></font></div><div><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span class="gmail_default">John K Clark </span> </b></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>