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Cures and Capitalisim
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It needs to be noted that cancer isn't a single disease, but a category of many diseases that share similar manifestations, much like Muscular Dystrophy. Therefore, it's pretty unlikely that there would ever be a single cure for all cancers, let alone that it would be hidden away.
"I was thirsty for everything, but blood wasn't my style" - Live, "Voodoo Lady"
It's probably been said, but there are far too many scientists and academics working at universities and hospitals that do the research for treatments and cures because they are passionate about helping people and not making a buck for there to be a widespread conspiracy to suppress any treatments.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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Imagine you're a big, BIG pharmaceutical company - thousands of employees, capitalization in the tens of billions, and a profit margin that would make a heroin dealer gulp with disbelief. Which of the following would you rather manufacture and sell:
1. An antibiotic that people take every day for a couple of weeks, or 2. An antidepressant that people take every day forever? Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
 (August 23, 2016 at 4:23 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Imagine you're a big, BIG pharmaceutical company - thousands of employees, capitalization in the tens of billions, and a profit margin that would make a heroin dealer gulp with disbelief. Which of the following would you rather manufacture and sell: Almost every human takes antibiotics several times in their lives. The majority of humans never take antidepressants. So I'd say, both?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
 (August 22, 2016 at 11:41 pm)ScienceAf Wrote:(August 22, 2016 at 10:10 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: If you think this is anger then you are just a little butt hurt 12 year old. No problem, I'll extend apologies also. Learning experience for both.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
 (August 23, 2016 at 12:33 am)KevinM1 Wrote: It needs to be noted that cancer isn't a single disease, but a category of many diseases that share similar manifestations, much like Muscular Dystrophy. Therefore, it's pretty unlikely that there would ever be a single cure for all cancers, let alone that it would be hidden away. Yes I understand it is a mutation in which a cell won't die. Here's a pretty simple video on CRISPR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAhjPd4uNFY 
Yeah CRISPR is pretty rad. I work at the NIH and see some stuff about CRISPR just about every day.
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