(August 22, 2016 at 2:23 pm)ScienceAf Wrote:(August 22, 2016 at 2:21 pm)PETE_ROSE Wrote: Not sure if someone would be framed or murdered for inventing a cure. I suppose it altogether possible that if there were more money involved in the treatment of a malady than a cure, and a company possessed ownership of both the treatment and the cure; then they may choose to suppress the cure and promote the treatment.
As with anything, if a need exists, multiple parties will be developing treatments and such. I would think if a cure was invented, such as a drug to cure cancer, then the drug companies would want to cash in while they had proprietary ownership of the formula.
But why would they cure cancer for a low cost when they could treat it for somones whole life at a high cost and cash of more money from it.
Reasons of empathy, wanting to gain a heroic reputation, nobel prizes and so on.
From how I imagine cancer research works, they probably have a lot of scientific minds on the job, the more people you have the less likely it is that they're all going to be able to keep a secret.
So another question I would ask is do you think it's realistic for large communities of scientists to know the cure for cancer but keep it a secret to earn money, without anyone letting the secret slip say for money, or fame, or the heroic status they will get?
Plus in places like England where I live the treatments they have for cancer do sometimes save people's lives from cancer, so then surely these treatments that save people's lives wouldn't exist if this conspiracy theory were true?
Those are my thoughts anyway.
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