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I found that missive (regarding politics and it's influence on the scientific community as a whole) conspicuously.. missing.. from this article. It's not so muc
by pksebben 4y ago
I found that missive (regarding politics and it's influence on the scientific community as a whole) conspicuously.. missing.. from this article. It's not so much about how politics affects the outcomes of science, imo, but how politics shapes what science is capable of in the first place.
I'm immediately reminded of how deeply skewed towards treatment (rather than curing) pharmaceutical research is, because of our economic structure.
- XorNot 4y agoThis is a fiction pushed by quacks. There are no cures being suppressed by "big pharma" because treatment makes more money. It's a convenient "just so" story people who don't work in bioscience love, told with all the certainty of "did you know you swallow 8 spiders a year on average".
- pksebben 4y agoI'm not claiming suppression, just noting that economic incentives are misaligned, and noting that we, as a society, have in our toolbelt a whole host of treatments, and only a handful of cures.