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You think it's strange that people who are researching cancer drugs have never taken them themselves?
by thisgoesnowhere 3y ago
You think it's strange that people who are researching cancer drugs have never taken them themselves?
- latchkey 3y agoThe analogy doesn't work. Everyone has money. Not everyone has cancer. Anyone who takes cancer drugs, is doing research. There is no "cure" for cancer (yet).
- indy 3y agoNo I don't think that's strange. A better analogy might be: would you think it strange that someone teaching a C programming class has never compiled a program?
- latchkey 3y agoexactly. would you think it is strange that someone who's teaching a C programming class that has never used a computer?
- thisgoesnowhere 3y agoThere is reason to believe that if he did own it directly that would be a conflict of interest. Here is a actual similar story without hyperbole since this actually happened. 'Imagine someone trying to bring a injunction against Liberty Reserve without owning any any stock in the company or having ever used their products'. 1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Reserve https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Reserve