reply to post by Reevster
Before I reply here, let me just say, I love your avatar....best I've seen tres kewl.
Ok...
Granted Pharm is big business and big business thinks mostly in profit. But think of the profit in curing one thing...let's not even say
cancer...let's say the common cold. Let's for a moment say that Chameleon corp Pharm came up with a pill that if you get a cold you take this pill
and POOF you have no more cold. Now, colds are actually BIGGER business than cancer. 99% of people get colds once in a while right? There are
doctor's visits, OTC cold remedies, cough syrups, throat drops....teas...there is no end to cold therapy. BUT here at my mythical pharm corp I can
cure the cold with one pill...mebbe I charge 50 bucks for it even...but suddenly my stocks go sky high, because people suddenly think my company has
what it takes. I get better gove grants for research, I get awards and money. people pay for my other meds, because damn if I can cure a cold, then
I can sell my other meds with the tag: from the company that cured the common cold. People are going to gobble that up. I have the true claim of
being able to do something NO ONE has ever done. I'll have blank checks piled on my desk for research, people are going to buy my stocks like a
bunch of crack heads who need a fix. There be money in that there cure. I've lost the nickle dime cough syrup sales, but that is chump change to
the money I can make on a cure.
Now, that said, I have no problem thinking big oil supresses technology for us to keep us enslaved. Becuase big oil has ONE thing to sell...OIL based
products for combustion technology. Pharm companies aren't that limited. There are diseases out the proverbial ying yang.
I may be naive about it...I'm open to that possibility. I'm always open to the idea I could be wrong. I don't think so though. Because beyond
the profit, they are actual people too...and I'd be surprised if most of the people involved in Pharm companies didn't have cancer, aids, and many
other terminal diseases touch their lives, be it in friends, family...themselves.
If they are suppressing a cure...god help them if it is ever uncovered beyond reasonable doubt that they are keeping cancer cures away from the
population....I make a prediction that the cork on hell will be popped on their butts and they'll be lucky if there aren't riots so great that not a
brick of their buildings will stand one on the other. I know I'll be one of the leaders.