alt Hacker News> How would this study’s methodology account for the public benefit from a new vaccine?
It shouldn't, because that doesn't make a lick of sense. Government-funded research came up with the vaccine. Why would the government owe a debt to private industry for selling it back to us?
If you paid for me to build a house that I rented back to you, should you be grateful for having a place to live?
That analogy doesn't make sense. It's more like you drew up the plans for house, someone else built it, but you're refusing to pay the developer for the part they did, because somehow, only drawing up the plans counts.
Academic researchers don't get a vaccine approved and manufacture it at scale. They do experiments and publish papers.