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Consumers would beat a path to the door of the dentists that offered this. They would make tons of money. The dentists not offering this product would lose cu
by nostromo 6y ago
Consumers would beat a path to the door of the dentists that offered this. They would make tons of money. The dentists not offering this product would lose customers and go out of business.
- dannyw 6y agoI don't know. We see pharma companies killing one-time cures to not cannibalise recurring treatments, even if another company makes the recurring treatments.
- mjewkes 6y agoWhere have we seen this? Genuine question.
- ArkanExplorer 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_inhibition_of_sperm_under_guidance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_inhibition_of_sperm...
- jtsiskin 6y agoI don’t have a specific example of openly stopping production of a cure, but it’s hard to imagine that research isn’t shaped by this profit drive: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patie... If the profit incentive was removed (let’s say government paid same flat rate for a lifetime supply of treatment, whether it be a cure or a reoccurring pill) I have no doubt more cures would be discovered
- Joeri 6y agoNot exactly an example, but the pharma industry has shown a complete lack of interest in pursuing phage therapy, even though it could help solve the problem of antibiotic resistance, because phages cannot be patented.
- samat 6y agoI’ve heard phage therapy is very individual and cannot be scaled as a reason for slow adoption.
- 0-_-0 6y agoAnecdotal, but I heard it from a reasearcher working in pharma that the company stopped developing a drug that cured some condition that another branch of the company had a treatment for.
- refurb 6y agoYet one of the biggest selling products ever was a cure for hepatitis C. Pharma hiding cures is internet BS.
- preciz 6y agoThat is one example that was interpreted by you to be valid for all other cases? Seeing your other comments I think you highly trust the medical system. Never trust blindly my friend.
- refurb 6y agoPlease give an example of a cure that has been hidden by pharma. I'm all ears.
- teekert 6y agoI believe so too, it would also simply require too many good people in labs all around te world to not say anything about it. I find that highly unlikely.
- mandmandam 6y agoTry looking up how many whistleblowers are out there that you've never heard of.
- happyconcepts 6y agoYet I cannot afford the USD $200,000 price tag for Gilead's cure.