>> I would suggest that testing drugs is *absurdly* expensive. 
> 
> Sure. And so is designing a CPU and everything it takes to mass produce 
> one.  The point I'm making is that manufacturing a drug might be quite 
> cheap, once you figure out what works.

Indeed. Depends how you make the drug, of course, but it certainly pales 
into insignificance beside the cost of testing it.

[It seems that drugs which you can make just by mixing some chemicals 
together are a lot cheaper than ones where you have to actually *grow* 
something and extract the chemical, for example.]

> Sort of like mass-producing software, once you get the first version 
> running.

That too.

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