That list does not show where the money is being spent by each organization.
This is irrelevant to the claim I was debunking.
True, the great grand-parent post appears to be conflating where the research was done with the nationality of the company funding the research, and I admit that I only responded to one half of the argument, but that was purely because it was the easiest to fact-check. That doesn't make the other half of the argument true.
Specifically, consider Bayer. This is listed as a German pharmaceutical company.
"American" pharmaceutical companies also have employees in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere.
Better statistics are provided elsewhere in wiki, for instance US R&D expenditure dwarfs that of any other country.
Including, say, military and aerospace R&D with healthcare R&D to try and make a point about just healthcare is clearly ridiculous.
This is irrelevant to the claim I was debunking.
True, the great grand-parent post appears to be conflating where the research was done with the nationality of the company funding the research, and I admit that I only responded to one half of the argument, but that was purely because it was the easiest to fact-check. That doesn't make the other half of the argument true.
Specifically, consider Bayer. This is listed as a German pharmaceutical company.
"American" pharmaceutical companies also have employees in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere.
Better statistics are provided elsewhere in wiki, for instance US R&D expenditure dwarfs that of any other country.
Including, say, military and aerospace R&D with healthcare R&D to try and make a point about just healthcare is clearly ridiculous.