Comment by sammalloy

One thing that has always stuck with me in regards to this topic is the lack of medical research in areas that need it but don’t get it because there isn’t any money in it. One area that comes to mind is feline urinary tract disease. Many years ago, I had a cat who kept coming down with this, and the vet(s) were at a total loss as to how this kept happening. So I decided to open up the literature and plough into it as a layman with no knowledge about animal medicine. Within the space of a single hour I quickly learned that many of the most common diseases facing animals have very little research behind them and a lot of unknowns. Which brings me back to one of the main points of the author. If the neoliberal approach to research is only going to focus on what is profitable to treat, then medical science as a whole has backed itself into a dark corner.