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By that conspiracy theory logic, I'd expect that no pharmaceutical company has ever done a clinical trial on a gene therapy based cure for a disease. But in rea
by streptomycin 14y ago
By that conspiracy theory logic, I'd expect that no pharmaceutical company has ever done a clinical trial on a gene therapy based cure for a disease. But in reality... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_therapy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_therapy
- conspiracynutt 14y agoi don't think you're seeing the key distinction.... that AIDS treatments are LARGELY GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIZED, which means guaranteed payments. this is no conspiracy... this is how it fucking is. in reality. in plain view.
- crusso 14y agoC'mon, his handle is "conspiracynutt". I think it's probably his job to swear that there's a drug company conspiracy that aims to prevent finding the cure for any disease that they can profit from instead.
- conspiracynutt 14y agowell im not even sure its a drug company conspiracy... i mean it certainly benefits drug companies no doubt... but it also benefits government research scientists.... it benefits DeBeers mining company because they can blame workers illness from dust in mines on HIV instead of on the mining.... it benefits a countless number of lawyers... it benefits all the HIV clinics and their employees.... how about all the people in academia that "research" this stuff and receive NIH grants to do so? i mean the benefit is a lot more spread out than just being of benefit to drug companies.
- 27182818284 14y ago"novelty accounts" like his should be downvoted on Hacker News, upvoted on Reddit.
- sp332 14y agoSo, only one drug has ever made it past clinical trials into actual "recommended" status? That's not a great track record.
- streptomycin 14y agoIt's not. That's because gene therapy is really difficult. The fact that they're doing clinical trials at all does mean that they're spending a huge amount of resources on it, though, as it's not easy to get to that stage.