“Even if a medication only shows, say, a 10% improvement in some patients, sometimes that’s enough to justify making it available to everyone.
Another great point, so why all the smoke and mirrors and secret and conspiracies and kidnappings??? If the drug is just not as powerful as they hope, if it's not actively hurting people, then you'd still make a profit, might as well be honest. Ashford's whole scheme of silencing the scientists looks... dumb.