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All commercial products are developed based on potential profit.

• TeMPOraL 8y ago
  Wouldn't be a problem if the producers weren't also lying about their effects. And people ask why so much hate towards marketing industry...
• PaulHoule 8y ago
  Then you need alignment. One of those cases where the patent model works is the development of prescription drugs. The possibility of monopoly profits leads pharma companies to develop and test drugs and run them through a regulatory gauntlet. Critics say it is expensive, but it does work in the sense that new drugs get invented and some of them really are a boon. For something like fish oil you can do the research but it benefits everybody else who sells fish oil, which, oddly enough, lowers my blood triglycerides like a drug although having put up no real benefits other than that for years.