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The whole point of a research collaboration on global disease to "Yes! Please! Learn from, use, and improve our ideas!" The FBI framing this as a quasi-spy role
by tehjoker 7y ago
The whole point of a research collaboration on global disease to "Yes! Please! Learn from, use, and improve our ideas!" The FBI framing this as a quasi-spy role is damaging human welfare for political purposes, which is their traditional role going back to their founding under Hoover. The environment in this country is getting progressively scarier.
- ETHisso2017 7y agoThere's also the broader question of whether it's morally right to push the US drug patent regime upon the rest of the world - in this case, before the patents or IP ever kick in from a legal perspective. This isn't just a US-vs-China thing. It's also a US-pharma-companies-vs-sick-people-everywhere thing.