>"Yeah, well, if you gather a few ounces of this wild plant and make a tea from it's roots, it's 90% likely to do the same thing as our pill."
You're distorting what I wrote it seems. I said "extracted oil" of the plant not "the roots of a few ounces". For essential oil you would need 100x or 200x of the plant or more depending on the plant to make the essential oil.
>Big pharma is completely incentivised to fund clinical studies, exactly so they can refine a form of the chemical(s) involved and patent them. Even field research into Archaea species is funded by this.
It's pretty evident I'm talking published research in my example. They are incentivized to conduct clinical studies internally on the plant extracts but they are not incentivized to publish that research if it's against their interests. My example would be nonsensical if they are randomly trying to mimic naturally existing compounds without researching first.
You're distorting what I wrote it seems. I said "extracted oil" of the plant not "the roots of a few ounces". For essential oil you would need 100x or 200x of the plant or more depending on the plant to make the essential oil.
>Big pharma is completely incentivised to fund clinical studies, exactly so they can refine a form of the chemical(s) involved and patent them. Even field research into Archaea species is funded by this.
It's pretty evident I'm talking published research in my example. They are incentivized to conduct clinical studies internally on the plant extracts but they are not incentivized to publish that research if it's against their interests. My example would be nonsensical if they are randomly trying to mimic naturally existing compounds without researching first.