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I would be happy if they cured cancer.

• hatware 5y ago
  • msla 5y ago
    So you think everyone working in the medical and pharmaceutical fields is an utterly amoral antisocial personality disorder case? Because that's what it would take for your conspiracy theory to work. If you honestly can't understand compassion, well...
    • hatware 5y ago
      That's rich. People are killing themselves, and tons of scheduled medical procedures are still being postponed. You'll reap what you sow.
      • msla 5y ago
        If you think everything "Pharma" does is bad, go without medicines. Fuck around and find out.
  • csee 5y ago
    Industries cannibalizing themselves through competition is very common. If pharma was a monopoly, then they wouldn't want to cure cancer. But pharma isn't a monopoly, so the incentive then is to reduce the size of the pie as long as they get to eat the entire pie themselves.
  • spywaregorilla 5y ago
    It's a cute common conspiracy theory but it doesn't really hold up. Modern pharma is making progress all the time. E.g. as shown, an HIV vaccine.
    • hatware 5y ago
      • spywaregorilla 5y ago
        Maybe, but modern pharma not being responsible for bad things wasn't the original claim.
    • nsxwolf 5y ago
      The conspiracy theory always ignores that cancer is a broad category. There will never be a single cure, but rather many individual cures. And the cures will really be more effective treatments that achieve remission very reliably. Most cancer treatments are already hypothetical cures, if things go well enough. The trick is to greatly increase how often it goes that well.
  • newsbinator 5y ago
    Money aside, 1/3rd to 1/2 of their family members (and themselves) would then stop dying of cancer.