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Can someone provide links to examples of companies withholding cures in exchange for profit? If not, the idea of this is nothing but conspiratorial. If it's tr
by sillysaurus3 9y ago
Can someone provide links to examples of companies withholding cures in exchange for profit? If not, the idea of this is nothing but conspiratorial.
If it's true, though, it's worth knowing.
- TheOtherHobbes 9y agoI wasn't being conspiratorial, so much as adding some detail to a market-based model. As in the other post below, I don't believe magic bullet cures are possible for most diseases. Following that economic logic further, it's much cheaper and easier to produce a not-very-effective but marketable palliative than it is to aim for a Nobel-winning medical moonshot. I don't know of any suppressed super-cures, but evidence confirming the limited effectiveness of (e.g.) SSRIs is easy to find and hard to argue with. Similarly questionable outcomes have been noted in other fields. E.g. novel anticoagulants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabigatran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabigatran
- Xoros 9y agoMy original statement was about how much money goes in treatment research vs in cure research. Not about some conspiracy :-)