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Possible Cure for Cancer
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on January 18, 2007, 04:34:34 pm ---Heres a quote from the bottom of the article: "The next step is to run clinical trials of DCA in people with cancer. These may have to be funded by charities, universities and governments: pharmaceutical companies are unlikely to pay because they can’t make money on unpatented medicines."
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If this is an even marginally possible cure for cancer they will have NO TROUBLE getting private funding. The organization that cures cancer will be able to write their own ticket in terms of global prestige and international awards. Seriously, it's worth a few tens of millions to go from "Johns Hopkins Medicine" to "Johns Hopkins Medicine - We Cured Cancer".
Buddabing:
If no one else funds it, I'm sure the Gates foundation would They have all kinds of money and I think this would be right up their alley.
Dartful Dodger:
--- Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on January 18, 2007, 04:23:21 pm ---A person would be hard-pressed to make a more irrational post than that. Jeebus.
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It's easy to say a company you don't work for, should develop something that will cause thousands if not hundreds of thousands of it's employees to lose their job.
shmokes:
Jesus Christ, haven't you people ever heard of capitalism? Free market? Competition? The conspiracy theories don't work. Don't you think Microsoft would make more money if they quit sinking billions of dollars into R&D and we just used Windows XP for the rest of our lives? Wait, what? You mean, if they don't keep building new operating systems someone else will and Microsoft will become obsolete?
Every drug company has been working on cures for cancer, regardless of what that would mean for their other businesses. Think about it for a second, when the cure for cancer is unleashed on the world, the cancer treatment market dries up. Whether Pfizer is the company to invent the cure or not, Pfizer's cancer treatment business collapses. Surely you can see, that while Pfizer's bottom line may be better off if nobody ever finds a cure for cancer, they can't afford not to be the person who develops the cure, cos when that happens the only company that will be making money will be the one with the cure. They can't afford for someone else to come up with it. Merck and all the others work exactly the same. Maybe they're run by mostly evil people (that's probably not true either), but they are all actively trying to be the one who cures cancer.
AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: shmokes on January 18, 2007, 06:20:56 pm ---Every drug company has been working on cures for cancer, regardless of what that would mean for their other businesses. Think about it for a second, when the cure for cancer is unleashed on the world, the cancer treatment market dries up. Whether Pfizer is the company to invent the cure or not, Pfizer's cancer treatment business collapses. Surely you can see, that while Pfizer's bottom line may be better off if nobody ever finds a cure for cancer, they can't afford not to be the person who develops the cure, cos when that happens the only company that will be making money will be the one with the cure. They can't afford for someone else to come up with it. Merck and all the others work exactly the same. Maybe they're run by mostly evil people (that's probably not true either), but they are all actively trying to be the one who cures cancer.
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Except if this drug works, no company has a patent on the drug which means any company can make it and they can already make it cheap. That means if it works, pharmaceutical companies will be out a lot of money.
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