[ { "scene_index": 1, "title": "The 1962 Mandate", "narration_text": "In nineteen sixty-two, your Congress decided that after proving a drug won't kill you, sick people should wait another eight point two years before they're allowed to take it.", "context": "The narrator introduces the 1962 law that changed drug approval wait times.", "char_start": 0, "char_end": 171, "start_ms": 340, "end_ms": 10600, "duration_ms": 10260, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 2, "title": "Passing Safety Testing", "narration_text": " The drug passed safety testing. It won't kill you, won't melt your liver, won't make your hair migrate to your back.", "context": "Describing a drug that has already been proven safe through Phase One testing.", "char_start": 171, "char_end": 288, "start_ms": 10600, "end_ms": 17560, "duration_ms": 6960, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 3, "title": "The Efficacy Barrier", "narration_text": "\nBut you can't have it, because a committee needs to spend eight point two years making sure it works well enough.", "context": "Critiquing the requirement for extensive efficacy testing before patients can access safe drugs.", "char_start": 288, "char_end": 404, "start_ms": 17240, "end_ms": 24160, "duration_ms": 6920, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 4, "title": "Allowed to Die", "narration_text": "\nYou're not allowed to volunteer for the trials that would answer that question faster, either. You are, however, allowed to die. This was called \"safety.\"", "context": "The irony of 'safety' regulations that prevent patients from seeking treatment while they are terminal.", "char_start": 404, "char_end": 561, "start_ms": 23920, "end_ms": 34960, "duration_ms": 11040, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 5, "title": "Earth vs Wishonia", "narration_text": "\n\nOn Wishonia, when we confirm something won't harm you, we let you try it. On Earth, you lock it in a cabinet and form a committee.", "context": "Comparing the logical approach of Wishonia to the bureaucratic approach of Earth.", "char_start": 561, "char_end": 694, "start_ms": 36040, "end_ms": 43320, "duration_ms": 7280, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 6, "title": "Differing Schedules", "narration_text": "\nThe committee meets quarterly. You decompose on a different schedule.\n\nA Note on Blame.\n", "context": "Highlighting the disconnect between regulatory pace and the reality of illness.", "char_start": 694, "char_end": 785, "start_ms": 44220, "end_ms": 50940, "duration_ms": 6720, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 7, "title": "Defining FDA Blame", "narration_text": "When this chapter says \"the F.D.A. does X,\" read it as \"the nineteen sixty-two law requires the F.D.A. to do X.\"", "context": "Clarifying that the FDA is merely following laws written by Congress.", "char_start": 785, "char_end": 896, "start_ms": 50940, "end_ms": 59060, "duration_ms": 8120, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 8, "title": "Blaming the Gun", "narration_text": "Congress wrote the rules. The F.D.A. follows them. Blaming the F.D.A. is like blaming the gun instead of the person who loaded it,", "context": "An analogy explaining that the legislative origin of the rules is the real problem.", "char_start": 896, "char_end": 1022, "start_ms": 60240, "end_ms": 67760, "duration_ms": 7520, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 9, "title": "The Safety Question", "narration_text": " aimed it at patients, and pulled the trigger on a sixty-two-year schedule.\n\n\"But What About Safety?\"", "context": "Questioning the human preoccupation with safety in the face of slow death.", "char_start": 1022, "char_end": 1124, "start_ms": 67760, "end_ms": 74320, "duration_ms": 6560, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 10, "title": "A Precise Proposal", "narration_text": "\n\nThis is the part where humans panic, so let me be very precise about what this chapter is (and isn't) proposing:", "context": "The narrator prepares to explain a specific policy change regarding drug testing.", "char_start": 1124, "char_end": 1235, "start_ms": 73620, "end_ms": 82560, "duration_ms": 8940, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 11, "title": "Phase One Success", "narration_text": "keep Phase One safety testing (it works, it caught thalidomide, nobody is suggesting you skip it).", "context": "Acknowledging the validity of the first stage of drug testing.", "char_start": 1235, "char_end": 1333, "start_ms": 82460, "end_ms": 89120, "duration_ms": 6660, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 12, "title": "Efficacy Testing Reform", "narration_text": "Do *radically more* efficacy testing, on *real patients*, with *transparent results*.\nBut stop holding known-safe drugs hostage while you run the trials.", "context": "Proposing that drugs known to be safe should be available while additional testing occurs.", "char_start": 1333, "char_end": 1491, "start_ms": 88880, "end_ms": 100700, "duration_ms": 11820, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 13, "title": "Wishonian Vocabulary", "narration_text": "\n\nOn Wishonia, we have a word for \"preventing someone from accessing a safe substance that could help them while they die.\"", "context": "A moral comparison of withholding treatment.", "char_start": 1491, "char_end": 1612, "start_ms": 100340, "end_ms": 108100, "duration_ms": 7760, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 14, "title": "The Inefficiency Tax", "narration_text": "The word is \"murder.\" You call it \"the approval process.\"\n\nThe forty-four point one times Inefficiency Tax.", "context": "Labeling the bureaucratic delay as a form of social murder.", "char_start": 1612, "char_end": 1719, "start_ms": 108100, "end_ms": 116100, "duration_ms": 8000, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 15, "title": "Oxford RECOVERY Trial", "narration_text": "\n\nCompare two real-world systems for testing drugs:\n\nThe Oxford RECOVERY Trial tested COVID treatments on forty-eight thousand patients", "context": "Introducing a successful, modern example of efficient drug testing.", "char_start": 1719, "char_end": 1852, "start_ms": 115460, "end_ms": 125080, "duration_ms": 9620, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 16, "title": "Normal Species Results", "narration_text": " for five hundred dollars and found a life-saving treatment in three months, just like a normal species would.", "context": "The result of the Oxford trial: fast and inexpensive.", "char_start": 1852, "char_end": 1962, 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That's a system performing exactly as designed, if the design goal was to kill people slowly enough that nobody notices.", "context": "A cynical take on the actual outcome of drug laws.", "char_start": 2208, "char_end": 2354, "start_ms": 148300, "end_ms": 158180, "duration_ms": 9880, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 20, "title": "Lifespan at Risk", "narration_text": "\n\nThe eight point two years Efficacy Lag.\n\nHere's where your lifespan goes to die:", "context": "Focusing on the specific 8.2-year delay period.", "char_start": 2354, "char_end": 2437, "start_ms": 157600, "end_ms": 164380, "duration_ms": 6780, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 21, "title": "Safety Trial Duration", "narration_text": "\n\nPhase One safety testing takes two point three years to test if the drug harms people through death, organ damage, mutations, or serious adverse reactions,", "context": "Detailing the time and purpose of the initial safety phase.", "char_start": 2437, "char_end": 2595, "start_ms": 164100, "end_ms": 174880, "duration_ms": 10780, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 22, "title": "The Efficacy Lag Period", "narration_text": " and because *this part works*, we should *keep it*. Phase Two and Three efficacy testing takes eight point two years,", "context": "Differentiating between necessary safety checks and lengthy efficacy checks.", "char_start": 2595, "char_end": 2709, "start_ms": 174320, "end_ms": 181880, "duration_ms": 7560, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 23, "title": "Holding Safe Drugs", "narration_text": " and although the drug is now *known safe*, patients can't have it until the committee is satisfied,", "context": "Criticizing the fact that safe drugs are kept from patients while waiting for proof of efficacy.", "char_start": 2709, "char_end": 2807, "start_ms": 181880, "end_ms": 187900, "duration_ms": 6020, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 24, "title": "The Scientific Delay", "narration_text": " which is where people die waiting for a drug that already passed every safety check your species invented.", "context": "Describing the human cost of the wait time for safe medications.", "char_start": 2807, "char_end": 2914, "start_ms": 187660, "end_ms": 194420, "duration_ms": 6760, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 25, "title": "Research Incentive Culture", "narration_text": "You invented science yesterday, cosmically speaking.\nNearly every study ends with \"more research is needed,\"", "context": "A commentary on the endless loop of scientific research requirements.", "char_start": 2914, "char_end": 3019, "start_ms": 194000, "end_ms": 203380, "duration_ms": 9380, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 26, "title": "Scientist Code", "narration_text": " which is scientist for \"please keep paying us while we figure out what we're looking at.\"", "context": "Interpreting the phrase 'more research needed' as a call for funding.", "char_start": 3019, "char_end": 3111, "start_ms": 202820, "end_ms": 208360, "duration_ms": 5540, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 27, "title": "Dead Men Need No Data", "narration_text": ".\nThis would be fine except people are decomposing while you figure it out. On Wishonia, we have a saying: \"The dead have no use for data.\"", "context": "Emphasizing that data is useless if the patient dies before they can receive the treatment.", "char_start": 3111, "char_end": 3251, "start_ms": 208180, "end_ms": 217580, "duration_ms": 9400, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 28, "title": "Requirement Changes", "narration_text": " You don't have that saying, which explains a lot. What the nineteen sixty-two Efficacy Requirements Changed.", "context": "Posing the question of what exactly changed after the 1962 legislation.", "char_start": 3251, "char_end": 3360, "start_ms": 217580, "end_ms": 225340, "duration_ms": 7760, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 29, "title": "Pre-1962 Testing", "narration_text": "\n\nBefore nineteen sixty-two, one hundred and forty-four thousand physicians tested treatments on real patients and published results.", "context": "Describing the peer-reviewed medical ecosystem before current regulations.", "char_start": 3360, "char_end": 3491, "start_ms": 224680, "end_ms": 234400, "duration_ms": 9720, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 30, "title": "Congress Intervened", "narration_text": "\nLife expectancy grew three point eight two years every decade for eighty straight years. Things were going well. Naturally, Congress intervened.", "context": "The ironic conclusion of how government intervention disrupted a successful medical trend.", "char_start": 3491, "char_end": 3636, "start_ms": 234040, "end_ms": 244220, "duration_ms": 10180, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 31, "title": "Thalidomide Success", "narration_text": "Phase One safety testing (added in nineteen thirty-eight) prevented all U.S. thalidomide deaths while Europe had thousands.", "context": "Contextualizing the success of pre-1962 drug safety regulations in the United States.", "char_start": 7310, "char_end": 7433, "start_ms": 1174310, "end_ms": 1190230, "duration_ms": 15920, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 32, "title": "Regulatory Pivot", "narration_text": "\nSo in nineteen sixty-two, Congress looked at a system that was working and thought, \"What if we made this much worse?\"", "context": "The transition to the 1962 legislative changes that altered the F.D.A. approval process.", "char_start": 7433, "char_end": 7553, "start_ms": 1190230, "end_ms": 1192110, "duration_ms": 1880, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 33, "title": "The Kefauver Harris Amendment", "narration_text": " They added massive pre-approval efficacy requirements via the Kefauver Harris Amendment, blocking patient access for years during testing.", "context": "Explaining the specific legislative amendment that introduced efficacy testing requirements.", "char_start": 7553, "char_end": 7693, "start_ms": 1192110, "end_ms": 1195070, "duration_ms": 2960, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 34, "title": "Exploding Costs", "narration_text": "\n\nThe cost of developing a drug went from twenty-four point seven million dollars to two point six billion dollars, a one hundred and five times increase.", "context": "The massive financial impact of the new regulations on pharmaceutical development.", "char_start": 7693, "char_end": 7847, "start_ms": 1194890, "end_ms": 1200290, "duration_ms": 5400, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 35, "title": "Stagnant Progress", "narration_text": " New drug approvals dropped by seventy percent. Life expectancy gains slowed from three point eight two years per decade to one point five four,", "context": "The decline in pharmaceutical innovation and slower growth in human life expectancy.", "char_start": 7847, "char_end": 7992, "start_ms": 1200290, "end_ms": 1205250, "duration_ms": 4960, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 36, "title": "Lengthening Timelines", "narration_text": " a sixty percent reduction. Time to approval stretched from two to three years to ten and a half years.", "context": "Statistical breakdown of the efficiency loss in drug approval timelines.", "char_start": 7992, "char_end": 8095, "start_ms": 1204410, "end_ms": 1237970, "duration_ms": 33560, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 37, "title": "The Policy Switch", "narration_text": "\n\nThe temporal break is exact. Every metric got worse the moment the law passed. Like flipping a switch from \"progress\" to \"paperwork.\".", "context": "A summary of how the 1962 law immediately impacted medical progress.", "char_start": 8095, "char_end": 8234, "start_ms": 1237170, "end_ms": 1239810, "duration_ms": 2640, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 38, "title": "Documented Evidence", "narration_text": "\n\nThe one hundred and five times cost increase is rigorously documented. See the Drug Development Cost Analysis for methodology,", "context": "Referencing the source data and analytical framework for the cost increase claims.", "char_start": 8234, "char_end": 8362, "start_ms": 1239810, "end_ms": 1274010, "duration_ms": 34200, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 39, "title": "Modern Consequences", "narration_text": " sensitivity analysis, and source data.\n\nThe Modern Consequences.\n\nEven if you think historical analysis is just opinions with footnotes,", "context": "Shifting the focus from historical data to the current tangible failures of the health system.", "char_start": 8362, "char_end": 8498, "start_ms": 1273750, "end_ms": 1278750, "duration_ms": 5000, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 40, "title": "The Efficacy Barrier", "narration_text": " the current system's failures are undeniable:\n\nA cure passes safety testing.\n\nYou can't take it (pending efficacy review).", "context": "Describing the paradox where safe drugs are withheld from patients for efficacy reviews.", "char_start": 8498, "char_end": 8623, "start_ms": 1278750, "end_ms": 1279510, "duration_ms": 760, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 41, "title": "The Trial Deadlock", "narration_text": "\n\nYou can't join the trial either (too sick, too old, or taking the wrong medications).\n\nYou die.\n\nThe F.D.A. approves the cure.", "context": "Illustrating the tragic cycle where patients die while waiting for official approvals.", "char_start": 8623, "char_end": 8757, "start_ms": 1279510, "end_ms": 1305130, "duration_ms": 25620, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 42, "title": "The Cost of Survival", "narration_text": "\n\nPharmaceutical companies charge your widow ten thousand dollars per pill.\n\nBeautiful system if you're a mortician or bankruptcy lawyer.", "context": "Critiquing the exorbitant pricing that follows late-stage drug approval.", "char_start": 8757, "char_end": 8897, "start_ms": 1305990, "end_ms": 1312810, "duration_ms": 6820, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 43, "title": "The Pre-1962 Era", "narration_text": "\n\nHigh Costs Kill Innovation, Reward Monopoly.\n\nBefore nineteen sixty-two: Genius scientist invents cure, raises a few million, tests safety,", "context": "Contrasting modern monopolies with the more agile research environment of the past.", "char_start": 8897, "char_end": 9039, "start_ms": 1312630, "end_ms": 1369050, "duration_ms": 56420, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 44, "title": "The Corporate Filter", "narration_text": " gives it to people. Like a civilization that wants to survive would.\n\nNow: Genius scientist must convince one of three mega-corporations", "context": "Describing how innovation is now gated by a few massive pharmaceutical companies.", "char_start": 9039, "char_end": 9182, "start_ms": 1368700, "end_ms": 1372630, "duration_ms": 3930, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 45, "title": "Risk and Conflict", "narration_text": " to spend two point six billion dollars on a ten percent chance of success. Those corporations already sell inferior drugs for the same condition.", "context": "The conflict of interest between developing new cures and selling existing treatments.", "char_start": 9182, "char_end": 9328, "start_ms": 1372630, "end_ms": 1448050, "duration_ms": 75420, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 46, "title": "Corporate Gamble", "narration_text": "\n\nThe math for the mega-corporation:\n\nOption one: Spend two point six billion dollars on trials.\n\nThere is a ninety percent chance you lose everything.", "context": "Analyzing the high financial risk associated with the current clinical trial system.", "char_start": 9328, "char_end": 9481, "start_ms": 1448010, "end_ms": 1460010, "duration_ms": 12000, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 47, "title": "Market Cannibalization", "narration_text": "\n\nThere is a ten percent chance you succeed, then cannibalize your own profitable drug. Option two: Buy the patent, and put it on a shelf.", "context": "Explaining the corporate strategy of suppressing competition through patent acquisition.", "char_start": 9481, "char_end": 9623, "start_ms": 1460010, "end_ms": 1492390, "duration_ms": 32380, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 48, "title": "Rational Sociopathy", "narration_text": "\n\nThere is a zero percent chance of losing two point six billion dollars. There is a one hundred percent chance your inferior cash cow keeps printing money.", "context": "The financial logic that favors maintaining the status quo over innovating.", "char_start": 9623, "char_end": 9777, "start_ms": 1491710, "end_ms": 1643410, "duration_ms": 151700, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 49, "title": "Punishing Better Treatments", "narration_text": "\n\nWhich would you choose if you were a rational sociopath in a suit?\n\nThe profit incentive doesn't just fail to reward better treatments.", "context": "Questioning the morality and incentives of the modern pharmaceutical business model.", "char_start": 9777, "char_end": 9914, "start_ms": 1642930, "end_ms": 1643890, "duration_ms": 960, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 50, "title": "Unprofitable Diseases", "narration_text": " It actively punishes them.\n\nOff-Patent Drugs and Rare Diseases: Mathematically Doomed. The nineteen sixty-two law made it mathematically impossible", "context": "Introducing the concept of 'mathematically doomed' treatments for rare diseases.", "char_start": 9914, "char_end": 10064, "start_ms": 1643890, "end_ms": 1645310, "duration_ms": 1420, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 51, "title": "High Cost per Patient", "narration_text": " to cure diseases that aren't profitable enough:\n\nNinety-five percent of diseases are rare. The development cost of two point six billion dollars", "context": "The economic reality of drug development when applied to small patient populations.", "char_start": 10064, "char_end": 10211, "start_ms": 1645310, "end_ms": 1645310, "duration_ms": 0, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 52, "title": "The Math of Rare Diseases", "narration_text": " divided by a patient population of around ten thousand patients equals two hundred and sixty thousand dollars per patient.", "context": "A numerical breakdown of the cost burden per patient for rare disease research.", "char_start": 10211, "char_end": 10332, "start_ms": 1645310, "end_ms": 1645310, "duration_ms": 0, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 53, "title": "Funding Dead Ends", "narration_text": "\n\nNo patent equals no funding. Off-patent drugs can't attract billion-dollar investments. Pre-specification kills serendipity.", "context": "Why non-patented drugs and accidental discoveries are neglected by the current system.", "char_start": 10332, "char_end": 10463, "start_ms": 1645310, "end_ms": 1645310, "duration_ms": 0, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 54, "title": "Economic Realities", "narration_text": " You must predict what drug cures before testing.\n\nWhen something costs more, you get less of it. 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