Originally posted by: SampSon
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: SampSon
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
I love it when they break into a lab and ruin years of research. Good thing they destroyed a cure for cancer to save a couple hundred rats.
You actually think we'll ever find a cure for cancer? Lol. Well, actually, let me rephrase that. You actually think a cure for cancer will ever be released?
I think your tinfoil hat is on a little too tight today.
*shrugs*. I don't really see how you can argue with it. Pharmaceutical companies exist to make money. There is much more money (say that five times fast

) in the treatment of a disease than there is the cure.
These companies want to make products that make them money. There's a reason we have hair loss pills and boner pills and no cure for AIDS, cancer, etc.. It's not that complicated to figure out.
Actually, it only shows your incredible ignorance about disease and drugs.
It simply amazes me the myths people will believe with no proof whatsoever.
My gf's sister is a Phd that works with mosquitos in relation to disease transmittal. She works with SUNY and pharm companies that develop drugs. She has the same bleak outlook on drug companies and related industry workings.
It's fairly common knowledge that there is more money in continuing drug research and treatment than there is in producing a "cure". When R&D stop, so does grant and other money to entities such as universities and other private research groups. Producing conclusive results in a field of research is a sure fire way to kill your usefulness as a researcher.
This is not a myth and is a very sad state of affairs.
You know, I hear this over and over, yet no one can produce ANY evidence of any such conspiracy. NONE.
Produce evidence? How about hearing it first hand from someone involved in the industry? Why would someone involved in the industry report something like that? That would be even worse career suicide than producing conclusive results in research. It's also something that is extremely hard to truly quantify. Besides someone stealing confidential information from a pharm company or research facility it is nearly impossible to "prove".
Just because it doesn't make news, doesn't mean it's not happening. There have been papers written on the subject and also other information on the subject is out there. Do I readily have the information at hand on the internet? No I don't. Could I talk to my gf's sister and ask her for more information and guiding light, yes I can. She has personally had her research master fired for making such claims at the university of illinois and SUNY oswego.
It's not my line of logic, it's just what I have been told and shown by someone who works directly with the research industry. The state of affairs of medical research 70 years ago is much different than it is today. Now it is a multi-billion dollar industry with much more clout than it ever had 70 years ago. You cannot compare the pioneering of a field/industry to the state in which it operates today. It's just not a fair comparison.
Apply your line of logic to things such as nuclear development, aircraft development, space development, weapons development, communication technology development, and a number of other fields. In your line of logic as soon as something is discovered/developed it will be released to the public and immediatly utilized for the "sake of mankind". If that was the case the US(and world) would have lost WW1 and WW2, would have lost the space race, would not be the largest and most advanced world military power, and we would probably be speaking russian right now. Information and developments are regularly withheld in order to benefit the originator. That is just common sense.
I'm not saying it's some HUGE conspiracy or anything, but I've heard enough directly from the horses mouth to believe that it happens, quite a bit. I'm much more inclined to believe someone directly working within the industry than your blanket opinion.