(August 22, 2016 at 2:35 pm)paulpablo Wrote:(August 22, 2016 at 2:32 pm)Alex K Wrote: While pharma corporations are as bad as any corporation, I don't find this conspiracy theory credible, at least not as taking place on a large scale. The scientists working for them are ordinary people with families and values, after all, not some shady impersonal robots. Also, a company inventing a cure say for HIV would make such an insane amount of money from that, they'd do that and then move on to something else. It's not like there aren't plenty of diseases left. Also, enough diseases have been eradicated and cured by pharmacological products. That being said, no, we can't trust pharma corporations to do what's best for mankind, they need to be strictly regulated.
I agree with the bit about people with values but would a cure for HIV make a company rich?
Wouldn't they be ethically inclined to pass on the info of the cure to every medical facility over the world for little cost?
This isn't a rhetorical question I genuinely don't know how the cure business works.
I'm not an expert, but would the situation for a cure for XY be much different from, say, how vaccines are sold?
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
