A600KiloBear,
you are absolutely incorrect. Most major medical advances did not come from drug companies, they came from University and Hospital research laboratories. A detailed sudy of this has been done by the former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, and the data are very clear about this. (Reference upon request)
I would say that I know a good many scientists; they are my colleagues and I would not classify any of them as “drones”, any more than I would classify my friends who study full-time in Yeshiva as “drones”. And, by the way, even with tenure, there is no job security in university research; if you actually knew anything about the subject, you would certainly know that. Perhaps this is not true “where you are” but it certainly holds for the US, most Western European countries, and Israel. And the system works best in those places.
How many original medical articles do you read every week? How would you know where the advances in medicine come from? If you were familiar with the literature, you would know that the things that you post are simply untrue.