Would the pharmaceutical industry conceal a cure?

[Star Puffs]

Plasmid303 offers the best analysis past cynicism.

People seem to forget that the companies that manufacture drugs indefinitely for people like Nova are usually not the ones who developed the drug.

There is economic incentive to delay a cure for the original R&D firm, but not conceal one indefinitely. By the time a pharmaceutical hits the market, the clock has been ticking on its patent throughout the approval process. Once the patent expires, the original company would have more incentive to release a completely new drug, cure or otherwise, rather than just lose out to the "generic" manufacturers.

 

[OSCORP]

Yes, and i didn't even have to read your post.

The cure to almost everything is in the foods we eat. Most would be shocked to learn the level of health you can have by eating right and how many illnesses can be reversed as well.

Also, when society breaks down or there's an all out collapse and you can't get your drugs anymore, lots will die, but you need to watch out for the folks coming of their psychotropic drugs. Those are the REAL zombies!

Gonna be WILD!

 

[fosing]

this thread is begging to be OSCORPed.

 

[tbay]

I talked to a friend that leads biomedical research projects and he told me that whenever someone comes up with a breakthrough that pharm companies with economic interests to delay cures to certain diseases buy the research and shelve it completely (not cures to diseases, but big steps in that direction that could possibly lead to cures). Probably the most depressing conversation I've ever had. I ended up having the same exact conversation with another researcher a week or two later.

 

[OSCORP]

"the future's uncertain and the end is always near"

 

[thenammagazine]

So OD and get found in the tub!

 

[azurepred]

And most would be shocked at how many healty eaters/people out there die of cancer, MS, AIDS, etc like everyone else. Because it's more than you would expect. Most disease has nothing to do with your lifestyle or the foods you eat. They have to do with genetics. If your family has a predisposition to heart disease or cancer, doesn't matter how much bird seed and grains you eat, it's not going to change that.

I don't know how many healthy teenagers still die of heart attacks these days, but it's up there, and we still have no clue why, so sure diet helps, but yea, genetics plays a huge part.

As much as I would love for cancer to have a cure, not only would it hurt big business, but it would be bad for the population if you have thousands, or millions of people not dying each year. That's why cigarettes are still legal imo, even though they hurt the environment, and the people around that don't want to inhale that smoke.

 

[gdb]

I talked to a friend that leads biomedical research projects and he told me that whenever someone comes up with a breakthrough that pharm companies with economic interests to delay cures to certain diseases buy the research and shelve it completely (not cures to diseases, but big steps in that direction that could possibly lead to cures). Probably the most depressing conversation I've ever had. I ended up having the same exact conversation with another researcher a week or two later.

That is both depressing and has the ring of truth to it.

On a lighter note, I should have pics for you by the end of the week!

 

[gdb]

The pharmaceutical companies are directed by the invisible hand of the free market. They are the embodiment of capitalism. If they help people along the way it is as a by product of their money making business plans. They make R and D decisions based solely on that. I heard one story about a new diagnosising tool for cancer that never made it out of its early stages because it couldn't turn the sort of profit something else they could sell would. Some foot fungus cream, I would imagine. I realize that socialism has been a bad word in this country since the 50s but perhaps, like socialized fire protection, socialized library systems and socialized police, just perhaps this is another industry that has to be unmoored by the amoral laws of supply and demand.

 

[Voorhees27]

Pharmaceutical / Politicians / Oil Companies / Devil. Same thing.

 

[Darth Cruel]

If you apply common sense to it...the backlash that would floor a company for hiding a cure...ifthey got caught...would make it a pathetically ridiculous thing to do...



IF you apply common sense to it.

 

[The Ween]

And most would be shocked at how many healty eaters/people out there die of cancer, MS, AIDS, etc like everyone else. Because it's more than you would expect. Most disease has nothing to do with your lifestyle or the foods you eat. They have to do with genetics. If your family has a predisposition to heart disease or cancer, doesn't matter how much bird seed and grains you eat, it's not going to change that.

Yup, I know someone who has been on totally natural foods all her life. No perfumes, etc. Even uses natural bristle brushes and toothbrushes and she's in her early 30s and has Fibromyalgia so bad, they figure she'll be in a wheel chair in about 10 years.

 

[daikkenaurora]

yes. medication = continuous profit

 

[devilof76]

IF you apply common sense to it.

Don't hold your breath.

Too many people ready to throw a yoke on anyone who won't capitulate to their demands.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

of course they would. there's no money in a cure

 

[devilof76]

I heard beets destroy tumors.

Eat your beets before they take them away.

 

[fosing]

the reptile people dont need cure. didnt you watch amazing spiderman?

Pharmaceutical / Politicians / Oil Companies / Devil. Same thing.

 

[devilof76]

I think the devil is awesome. Too bad more politicians don't.

 

[hairlesswookiee]

If you apply common sense to it...the backlash that would floor a company for hiding a cure...ifthey got caught...would make it a pathetically ridiculous thing to do...



IF you apply common sense to it.

This.

~~I think Plasmid offers the best answer to this topic. As someone that also faces the lifetime of medications and constant treatment I do wish there was a "magic bullet" to cure many of the diseases.

 

[BuffyGirl]

Of course. Not just because of money, but also because of population. It's unfortunate to think of it this way but death is how the earth keeps from over populating. It needs to happen, and disease/illness helps keep the numbers down.