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skybrian • today at 2:46 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

How would this study’s methodology account for the public benefit from a new vaccine?

Edit: according to ChatGPT, it doesn’t:

> the analysis considers resources such as research funding, scientists' labor, data collection, analysis, and manuscript preparation. It does not assign an economic value to lives saved, illness prevented, or economic activity preserved by a vaccine


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ryx • today at 2:57 PM

To my understanding the article clearly does not question the academic research itself but the way the results are published and who benefits from (the money returned by) such publications. Or am I misreading it?

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