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Is it possible for any company to buy science? 

In others, e.g. the states, research grants are so arbitrary that scientists are less sure. Let's say that they're somewhat cheaper.

In fact, let's assume the minimum wage of my country as an indication. If I'd sell my integrity, I'd want to be settled. I'd guess about 40 is a good average age; that'd mean about 25 years at minimum wage.

As a result, we'd be looking at about 12 thousand per year, for 25 years, for 12000 scientists. 12 000 * 25 * 12 000 = 3 600 000 000 . So, that's looking at 3.6 billion euro (Currently similar to dollar; 3.77 billion dollar) for cheap integrity and a low number of scientists.

Mosanto makes about 16 billion dollar per year, with about 22 000 employees. Guess what.

For pharmaceuticals, the numbers are somewhat bigger, given the number of people working in medicine. We (apparently) have 67 000 GP/Family-doctors in the country. Most of these heavily endorse vaccines. Let's say, 60 000 of them. Remember that I estimated only 60 per field in my country; for GP's that'd be a thousand times more. As a result, you'd need a thousand times more money to buy them all, if we again take my country as an average for those 200 countries worldwide. So, any industry able to buy them all should make sufficiently more than 3 600 billion dollar. Turns out, that's ten times more than the global pharmaceutical industry. The psychological helpers are only good for about ten, anyway. There's actually no industry that can pay that. So, suck it, any-sort-of-medical-conspiracy-theorist.

As always, use your own mind first and foremost. It's not as if this was a hard calculation to do.


