[ExI] glutamine and life-extension

[Dave Sill]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I can't easily find actual figures but I think in the world as a whole
> most medical research is publicly funded.

Most *medical* research? Maybe. Most *drug* research? No way.

> The purpose of publicly
> funded research is to discover things that are interesting or useful,
> which is not always the same as discovering things that can be sold
> for a lot of money. Drug companies generally won't spend money
> researching dietary supplements or doing basic research because they
> have nothing to gain from it, even though society does. If public
> researchers do not think it is worthwhile investigating something then
> it is probably because they think it is unlikely it will yield useful
> results.

Exactly. That was point of my first posting in this thread.

-Dave