"IP Advocate: Beyond misuse and misinterpretation, what is the worst you have seen?"
"Dr. Barnett: It comes down to money. Nowhere does it say that Bayh-Dole was intended to earn big bucks for universities. Yet many universities and corporations in the system skip right for the money, any way they can get it. Ironically, apart from some rare, substantial transactions over the nearly 30 years of Bayh-Dole, universities haven't got all that much of the money, and have done even worse at the other stuff, such as dealing with software and data.
"The problems also show up with university inventors. I've seen money-driven behavior with federal funding that wouldn't do so well if it surfaced in the press. It isn't that money driven behaviors are themselves bad. It's just that within a university, in the conduct of science and other public interested research, it's the public interested part that gets squeezed out. Who advocates for the public interest in the push and pull between inventors and administrators over Bayh-Dole inventions?"
Got one other to read first thing tomorrow. Then will think on this some.
One of the problems is the NIH that provides the funding then advocates these drugs get pushed. Fauchi did that with AIDS and AZT. He advocated Tamaflu which does nothing. He told the Bush administration to stockpile it. He pushed Remdesivir which did nothing. Studies I believe were skewed on Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine. I guess dexamethasone is OK to use, but that's a steroid that mitigates immune response, By giving out money and advocating what gets used, they control what gets researched. Molnupiravir was shelved. Mat Taibbi wrote an article saying cronyism is behind much of what is advocated.
Why does the US pay the highest drug prices in the world when the taxpayer funds research and development of the drug? The cure for Hepatitus C is an excellent example. HIV is another example. Maybe enough data on the medicine is not available so newer medications are used in developing countries. Bill Gates was giving out vaccines for HPV in Africa supposedly killing many girls. It was given out as a general health drug.(1) Maybe this is false, I don't know
PrEP (Pre Exposure Prophylaxis )vaccines are being tried out in Africa now for HIV (2). Truvada and other new drugs may be used there for study.
Ah well... Got WAY distracted on another Substack. Read this from MIT student 2005 which was mebbe overly hopeful. Hindsight being 20/20:
http://web.mit.edu/lawclub/www/Bayh-Dole%20Act.pdf#:~:text=The%20Bayh-Dole%20Act%20has%20created%20opportunities%20for%20conflict,while%20simultaneously%20funding%20these%20faculty%20members%E2%80%99%20research.%20%2816%29
THIS one fascinated me, but couldn't find a DATE it was written:
http://ipadvocatefoundation.org/stories/120409/
Part I thought was MOST significant was:
"IP Advocate: Beyond misuse and misinterpretation, what is the worst you have seen?"
"Dr. Barnett: It comes down to money. Nowhere does it say that Bayh-Dole was intended to earn big bucks for universities. Yet many universities and corporations in the system skip right for the money, any way they can get it. Ironically, apart from some rare, substantial transactions over the nearly 30 years of Bayh-Dole, universities haven't got all that much of the money, and have done even worse at the other stuff, such as dealing with software and data.
"The problems also show up with university inventors. I've seen money-driven behavior with federal funding that wouldn't do so well if it surfaced in the press. It isn't that money driven behaviors are themselves bad. It's just that within a university, in the conduct of science and other public interested research, it's the public interested part that gets squeezed out. Who advocates for the public interest in the push and pull between inventors and administrators over Bayh-Dole inventions?"
Got one other to read first thing tomorrow. Then will think on this some.
One of the problems is the NIH that provides the funding then advocates these drugs get pushed. Fauchi did that with AIDS and AZT. He advocated Tamaflu which does nothing. He told the Bush administration to stockpile it. He pushed Remdesivir which did nothing. Studies I believe were skewed on Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine. I guess dexamethasone is OK to use, but that's a steroid that mitigates immune response, By giving out money and advocating what gets used, they control what gets researched. Molnupiravir was shelved. Mat Taibbi wrote an article saying cronyism is behind much of what is advocated.
Why does the US pay the highest drug prices in the world when the taxpayer funds research and development of the drug? The cure for Hepatitus C is an excellent example. HIV is another example. Maybe enough data on the medicine is not available so newer medications are used in developing countries. Bill Gates was giving out vaccines for HPV in Africa supposedly killing many girls. It was given out as a general health drug.(1) Maybe this is false, I don't know
PrEP (Pre Exposure Prophylaxis )vaccines are being tried out in Africa now for HIV (2). Truvada and other new drugs may be used there for study.
(1) https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/vaccine-denialists-hate-bill-gates/
(2) https://www.prepvacc.org/