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stumu415 lemmy.zip stumu415@lemmy.zip
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Besides drug approval, which is not a measurement in itself, I can attest to this.
A large German pharma, has increased their head count from 7 to 40 within a year. They bought a local pharma for 1 billion US dollar and at the same time closed a US facility.
The same goes for many other pharmas. You can say what you want about China, but they are investing heavily in science. Because they believe in science. Unlike the current regime of the US.

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𝔄 𝔰𝔒𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔒𝔫𝔱 𝔭𝔦𝔒𝔠𝔒 𝔬𝔣 𝔠π”₯𝔒𝔒𝔰𝔒 lemmy.world zakobjoa@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-03
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Catoblepas piefed.blahaj.zone Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-06-06
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The regime cannot fail, it can only be failed. Those scientists were supposed to do their job of finding evidence for whatever possibly non-metaphorical bug RFK Jr has up his ass on a given day. πŸ™„

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Maiq piefed.social Maiq@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-07-09
#5 · Quote Reply

Cancer mad it's killing the host.

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Canaconda lemmy.ca Canconda@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-07-10
#6 · Quote Reply

Besides drug approval, which is not a measurement in itself, I can attest to this. A large German pharma, has increased their head count from 7 to 40 within a year. They bought a local pharma for 1 billion US dollar and at the same time closed a US facility. The same goes for many other pharmas. You can say what you want about China, but they are investing heavily in science. Because they belie...

Canada is hiring American doctors left right and center.

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birdwing lemmy.blahaj.zone birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-08-19
#7 · Quote Reply

Besides drug approval, which is not a measurement in itself, I can attest to this. A large German pharma, has increased their head count from 7 to 40 within a year. They bought a local pharma for 1 billion US dollar and at the same time closed a US facility. The same goes for many other pharmas. You can say what you want about China, but they are investing heavily in science. Because they belie...

I still don't really trust China, it's more reliable than the US regime (minus Democratic areas) rn, but still, that's a low bar.

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Zorque lemmy.world Zorque@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-13
#8 · Quote Reply

That's what happens when you let everyone know you're not going to eat your lunch, someone else is going to eat it.

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Imgonnatrythis sh.itjust.works Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-09-23
#9 · Quote Reply

Also have cooler cars.

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Soup lemmy.world Soup@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-09
#10 · Quote Reply

Is he not directly responsible for defunding a lot of the research and programs that would have helped here? Weird that Captain All-Natural cares about having less drugs than China.

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JetpackJackson feddit.org JetpackJackson@feddit.org
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#11 · Quote Reply

?

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teslekova sh.itjust.works teslekova@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2026-01-09
#12 · Quote Reply

?

Know your meme hot dog guy

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TheKingBee lemmy.world TheKingBee@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-18
#13 · Quote Reply

?

"we're all looking for the guy who did this"

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Elting piefed.social Elting@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-11-18
#14 · Quote Reply

I still don't really trust China, it's more reliable than the US regime (minus Democratic areas) rn, but still, that's a low bar.

I'm sure they will carry on the world hegemon tradition of being generally contemptible.

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cΓΈre leminal.space core@leminal.space
Joined: 2025-10-26
#15 · Quote Reply

It looks like he used a lot of them too.

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Tronn4 lemmy.world Tronn4@lemmy.world
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kablez lemmy.world kablez@lemmy.world
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#17 · Quote Reply

That's so unexpected and weird, did the severed dead raccoon penis not help at all??

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JetpackJackson feddit.org JetpackJackson@feddit.org
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#18 · Quote Reply

"we're all looking for the guy who did this"

Lmao thanks for the laughs

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JetpackJackson feddit.org JetpackJackson@feddit.org
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#19 · Quote Reply

Know your meme hot dog guy

Thanks!

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Canajan piefed.ca Canajan@piefed.ca
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#20 · Quote Reply

That's so unexpected and weird, did the severed dead raccoon penis not help at all??

Was about to make a similar comment lol, you beat me to it. So wild, who in there right mind would say to themselves β€œI’m gonna cut off that dead raccoons penis for research, ya research β€œ

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FiniteBanjo feddit.online FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
Joined: 2025-12-23
#21 · Quote Reply

It's so weird watching the cognitively impaired elderly because they say 98% random left field nonsense and then the fucking 2% profound revelation statements.

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Pumpkin Escobar lemmy.world PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
#22 · Quote Reply

This dude thinks aspirin causes autism but then complains we're not approving enough drugs. That tapeworm really did a number on this guy.

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InternetCitizen2 lemmy.world InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-16
#23 · Quote Reply

That's so unexpected and weird, did the severed dead raccoon penis not help at all??

The brain worm may have shifted, thus allowing neurons to connect again.

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Stormy thelemmy.club Stormy@thelemmy.club
Joined: 2026-02-16
#24 · Quote Reply

Also have cooler cars.
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Imgonnatrythis sh.itjust.works Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-09-23
#25 · Quote Reply

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What you can see of them through the smog yeah.

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somethingsnappy lemmy.world somethingsnappy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-07
#26 · Quote Reply

Besides drug approval, which is not a measurement in itself, I can attest to this. A large German pharma, has increased their head count from 7 to 40 within a year. They bought a local pharma for 1 billion US dollar and at the same time closed a US facility. The same goes for many other pharmas. You can say what you want about China, but they are investing heavily in science. Because they belie...

It's so fun looking for work now after a career in vaccine and cancer therapy development.

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benny reddthat.com benny@reddthat.com
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#27 · Quote Reply

The Republicans in the room:

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Chakravanti monero.town Chakravanti@monero.town
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#28 · Quote Reply

This dude thinks aspirin causes autism but then complains we're not approving enough drugs. That tapeworm really did a number on this guy.

Guess where Arrakis Sandworms anscstors came from.

Should rather link to their shitty dope too.

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Chakravanti monero.town Chakravanti@monero.town
Joined: 2024-12-05
#29 · Quote Reply

It's so fun looking for work now after a career in vaccine and cancer therapy development.

Ooohh...damn...oh...uh...damn...snap.

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Tollana1234567 lemmy.today Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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#30 · (edited) Quote Reply

mr wormbrain distraction for trump. notice he was eerily absent in the news when all that ice, iran attack was happening, and now that is likely is "blown over",.

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fullsquare awful.systems fullsquare@awful.systems
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#31 · (edited) Quote Reply

that's a weird metric to look at because drug approval happens only like, 5-15 years after end of preclinical research, sometimes longer

clinical trials also take fuckton of money but this might be also post-2008 cuts that we only see effects of now

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Mog_fanatic lemmy.world Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world
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#32 · Quote Reply

Was about to make a similar comment lol, you beat me to it. So wild, who in there right mind would say to themselves β€œI’m gonna cut off that dead raccoons penis for research, ya research β€œ

It's so so much better when you see the full quote. He thought he was the normal one in his family lol. Keep in mind this is his own words from his diary.

β€œI was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be."

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Evotech lemmy.world Evotech@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-11
#33 · Quote Reply

that's a weird metric to look at because drug approval happens only like, 5-15 years after end of preclinical research, sometimes longer clinical trials also take fuckton of money but this might be also post-2008 cuts that we only see effects of now

The lines must go up metric

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bstix feddit.dk bstix@feddit.dk
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#34 · Quote Reply

They are eating the cats and dogs and also our lunch of the people who live there.

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Alwaysnownevernotme lemmy.world Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world
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#35 · (edited) Quote Reply

What you can see of them through the smog yeah.

They've outpaced the rest of the world combined for the last two years in renewable deployment.

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FreddiesLantern leminal.space FreddiesLantern@leminal.space
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#36 · Quote Reply

β€œI want to take this opportunity to encourage our scientists to invest more research into the fascinating field of Raccoon penis. I’ll gladly share my findings.”

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Starya67 lemmy.world starlinguk@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-17
#37 · (edited) Quote Reply

Besides drug approval, which is not a measurement in itself, I can attest to this. A large German pharma, has increased their head count from 7 to 40 within a year. They bought a local pharma for 1 billion US dollar and at the same time closed a US facility. The same goes for many other pharmas. You can say what you want about China, but they are investing heavily in science. Because they belie...

Eh, ymmv. Did you know they defunded BioNTech? The developers of what is now the Pfizer Covid vaccine? Covid vaccine research is desperately needed (see vaccine injury) but there is no funding.

Many EU countries are defunding science. Being a researcher is an absolute nightmare. Brussels is receiving tons more applications for funding because researchers aren't getting money from their own government anymore. University departments are being shut down.

People who have been doing scientific and medical research for decades are finding themselves on the streets.

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Starya67 lemmy.world starlinguk@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-17
#38 · Quote Reply

I still don't really trust China, it's more reliable than the US regime (minus Democratic areas) rn, but still, that's a low bar.

Xi is no better than Trump.

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Valmond lemmy.dbzer0.com Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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#39 · Quote Reply

They've outpaced the rest of the world combined for the last two years in renewable deployment.

True, I think what they have deployed the last 2 years could power the whole of Europe.

Still a brutal dictatorship though.

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Bloomcole lemmy.world Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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#40 · Quote Reply

that's a weird metric to look at because drug approval happens only like, 5-15 years after end of preclinical research, sometimes longer clinical trials also take fuckton of money but this might be also post-2008 cuts that we only see effects of now

It is indeed not the current administration that led to this.
It certainly won't help but that is not the cause, neither is the 2008 one.
China has been advancing in plenty fields for a few decades now.
They have already caught up or surpassed others in plenty fields.
Americans are clinging to their USA nr 1 mantra, but that's delusional.
They refuse to accept to the fact they already have been beaten and there is nothing they can do about it.
Despite banning and sanctions China has a massive lead in nearly all crucial tech fields.
The gap will only become bigger.

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trolololol lemmy.world trolololol@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-07
#41 · Quote Reply

  • panik : they got more drugs approved
  • kalm : we don't believe in medicine or drugs, we're antivaxxx
  • naturopathy - raw milk can cure cancer and any other disease known to man
  • tankie : their vaccines cause aids
  • tankie 2 : the drugs are approved but they don't exist
  • murican exceptionalism : our drugs are bigger, better, more expensive and cause more dependency
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elucubra sopuli.xyz elucubra@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-06-03
#42 · Quote Reply

β€œI want to take this opportunity to encourage our scientists to invest more research into the fascinating field of Raccoon penis. I’ll gladly share my findings.”

I hear they are pumping more money into roadkill extract for curing autism.

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Owl mander.xyz BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz
Joined: 2023-06-09
#43 · (edited) Quote Reply

Soon a new trump tweet:

FAKE NEWS MEDIA won’t tell you this, but GREAT American Scientists just CRUSHED the number of DEADLY DRUGS pouring into OUR Country! DOWN BIG LEAGUE! China, you POISONOUS SCUMBAGS, STOP making your NEW KILLER DRUGS and MURDERING our Precious CHILDREN! We’re WINNING like NEVER BEFORE! MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN! πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

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ragebutt lemmy.dbzer0.com ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-01-21
#44 · Quote Reply

Xi is no better than Trump.

Adding green energy at 8x the rate of the USA with a total of 3.89 terawatts, which is 3x larger than the entire USA energy grid, and accounting over 30% of the worlds spending towards green energy while the USA has less than 25% of the grid as green energy

Essentially ending homelessness

A notably lower prison population than the USA despite like 6x the population

A minimum wage set by provinces who are heavily encouraged to give increases every few years tied to inflation and cost of living

Actually working to shift a fee for service healthcare system to a socialized model with significant progress occurring

No airstrikes, bombings of another country, or declared wars since 1979. Even in terms of proxy wars post 1979 has been far more about economic support and diplomacy than shipping weapons

Etc etc but yes Xi and Trump are equivalent because they have a social credit score and government surveillance. That’s definitely not like the America, who has just normal credit scores, palantir, and a large chunk of your tax money funding proxy wars (and now actual war) instead of maintaining critical infrastructure or any quality of life improvements for its people.

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arc99 lemmy.world arc99@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-06-10
#45 · Quote Reply

This cunt is a child killer. Not through negligence, but deliberately and intentionally.

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porous_grey_matter lemmy.ml porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-12-09
#46 · Quote Reply

Xi is no better than Trump.

On what basis exactly are you making such a wild claim?

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Gathorall lemmy.world Gathorall@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-13
#47 · (edited) Quote Reply

It is indeed not the current administration that led to this. It certainly won't help but that is not the cause, neither is the 2008 one. China has been advancing in plenty fields for a few decades now. They have already caught up or surpassed others in plenty fields. Americans are clinging to their USA nr 1 mantra, but that's delusional. They refuse to accept to the fact they already have been...

The funniest thing is that all the while China is the largest creditor of USA by far, and USA has had foreign investment pouring in overall all those decades.

USA had the money not just to maintain but rapidly advance, and a head start. To bite the dust in this situation is some serious incompetence.

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Bloomcole lemmy.world Bloomcole@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-17
#48 · Quote Reply

The funniest thing is that all the while China is the largest creditor of USA by far, and USA has had foreign investment pouring in overall all those decades. USA had the money not just to maintain but rapidly advance, and a head start. To bite the dust in this situation is some serious incompetence.

It wouldn't be this bad but they would've lost either way.
China has 4x the population.
They can spend more money from their healthy economy while the US is declining.

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Ooops feddit.org Ooops@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-07-06
#49 · Quote Reply

Is he not directly responsible for defunding a lot of the research and programs that would have helped here? Weird that Captain All-Natural cares about having less drugs than China.

Yes, but that's entirely missing the point here.

Drug research and development takes decades until final approval. If there is a decrease in the US (or an increase in China), you need to look for cuts (or additional investments) in the early 2000s.

The damage this idiot has done will not be visible for quite some time...

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fizzle quokk.au fizzle@quokk.au
Joined: 2025-11-21
#50 · Quote Reply

Oh man. The US has lost its edge in everything. Its a real shit show.

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fossilesque mander.xyz fossilesque@mander.xyz
Joined: 2023-03-14
#51 · Quote Reply

This cunt is a child killer. Not through negligence, but deliberately and intentionally.
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