That list does not show where the money is being spent by each organization. Instead it only maps the expenditure to the lcoation of a corporations headquarters.
Better statistics are provided elsewhere in wiki, for instance US R&D expenditure dwarfs that of any other country. It is also about 33% higher than that of the combined total of EU countries.
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.
Specifically, consider Bayer. This is listed as a German pharmaceutical company. Bayer reports to have 37,000 employees, however 16,000 of thema are in the USA. (http://www.bayerpharma.com/en/company/index.php, http://www.bayer.com/en/north-america.aspx).
Better statistics are provided elsewhere in wiki, for instance US R&D expenditure dwarfs that of any other country. It is also about 33% higher than that of the combined total of EU countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_research_a...