Re: Mickelson to Leave Tour; Amy Mickelson Diagnosed with Breast Cancer.
- From: Carbon <nobrac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 24 May 2009 15:35:30 GMT
On Sun, 24 May 2009 11:11:01 +0000, assimilate wrote:
On 23-May-2009, "Kurgan. presented by Gringioni."
<kgringioni@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Let me give you an hypothetical example:
A company develops a drug that keeps a disease in check. Their drug
is the only known treatment.
The company then conveniently spreads the disease.
you watch too many movies full of "evil capitalists", this is not
plausible.
No one is suggesting that it happened, but it's completely plausible.
Here's a related one: A large pharmaceutical company patents a drug to
keep a disease in check. They make so much money from it that they have
no incentive to work on a cure. In return for consideration in other
areas they conspire with other large companies to limit research funding
for a cure for this and other diseases. The disease remains a profit
center for the company for the duration of the patent, at which point
more effective drugs miraculously appear on the market.
Is this totally implausible too?
.
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