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Comment author: Lumifer 22 May 2013 04:22:03PM 3 points [-]

He plans to use some of the money to run formal clinical trials.

Formal clinical trials are hugely expensive (consider the price of bringing a new drug to the market -- a large part of that cost is clinical trials).