There is some truth to it, though. Big Pharma hates to develop vaccines because they aren’t big money-makers. The most you have to take a vaccine is once a year, and many of them you only need to take once in your entire life. That’s why the government has to dump a big pile of cash onto them whenever they need a vaccine. They would much rather put R&D into a pill that you have to take every day.
The USA capitalist system effectively worships money more than God. It’s not a conspiracy theory so much as a not unwarranted suspicion about for-profit drug companies’ likely motivations and priorities. The only thing potentially keeping that at bay is the threat of someone else disrupting their cash flow with an actual cure - although that doesn’t prevent them from burying cures they find themselves unless it benefits them, or significantly disadvantages a major competitor.
Okay so how come the public sector doesn’t release cures for chronic disorders? Fred Banting discovered insulin at the University of Toronto, how come he didn’t discover a cure?
I don’t know about Canada but I’m in the other CA, and I know UCLA for instance actively partners with (gets a lot of funding from) pharmaceutical companies for their research projects.
Fred Banting did what was possible, even considered impossible, at the time. Today’s question, how come we still haven’t discovered a cure? Best we can do is a transplanted pancreas and kidney, if we can find a dead but healthy donor.
Electronic devices often have potentiometers that let you calibrate them with a screwdriver. If I were designing a human, I’d give it potentiometers, or a chemical equivalent, to make maintenance easier. So if you become insulin resistant, we can just open you up and turn a screw to reduce your resistance.
But the human body wasn’t designed to be repaired. It evolved to self-repair. Its systems are all based on the assumption of live adaptation to the situation, they’re self calibrating. We can’t manually adjust the calibration, it wasn’t made with those interfaces. Insulin receptors don’t have potentiometers.
So all of the hacks we’ve built to repair the human body are live fixes, the same as its own mechanisms. We adjust the insulin upwards to counter the resistance the same as the body does. Or reduce the rate at which blood sugar is released so less storage is needed. Those treatments need constant intervention because the human body is designed for constant adaptation.
Or we can just replace the part like we would with a machine that isn’t designed to be calibrated. Which is hard work.
Doc can’t CURE you because pharma only invests in drugs to MANAGE illness.* Because that gets them paid forever, not just once.
Extremely lazy conspiracy theory
There is some truth to it, though. Big Pharma hates to develop vaccines because they aren’t big money-makers. The most you have to take a vaccine is once a year, and many of them you only need to take once in your entire life. That’s why the government has to dump a big pile of cash onto them whenever they need a vaccine. They would much rather put R&D into a pill that you have to take every day.
The USA capitalist system effectively worships money more than God. It’s not a conspiracy theory so much as a not unwarranted suspicion about for-profit drug companies’ likely motivations and priorities. The only thing potentially keeping that at bay is the threat of someone else disrupting their cash flow with an actual cure - although that doesn’t prevent them from burying cures they find themselves unless it benefits them, or significantly disadvantages a major competitor.
What would a cure for ADHD even look like?
Revolutionary change in economics and culture.
What would a cure for a standard bacterial infection look like?
Oh moldy bread? Who would have thought
Nfi, mate
Okay so how come the public sector doesn’t release cures for chronic disorders? Fred Banting discovered insulin at the University of Toronto, how come he didn’t discover a cure?
I don’t know about Canada but I’m in the other CA, and I know UCLA for instance actively partners with (gets a lot of funding from) pharmaceutical companies for their research projects.
Fred Banting did what was possible, even considered impossible, at the time. Today’s question, how come we still haven’t discovered a cure? Best we can do is a transplanted pancreas and kidney, if we can find a dead but healthy donor.
Electronic devices often have potentiometers that let you calibrate them with a screwdriver. If I were designing a human, I’d give it potentiometers, or a chemical equivalent, to make maintenance easier. So if you become insulin resistant, we can just open you up and turn a screw to reduce your resistance.
But the human body wasn’t designed to be repaired. It evolved to self-repair. Its systems are all based on the assumption of live adaptation to the situation, they’re self calibrating. We can’t manually adjust the calibration, it wasn’t made with those interfaces. Insulin receptors don’t have potentiometers.
So all of the hacks we’ve built to repair the human body are live fixes, the same as its own mechanisms. We adjust the insulin upwards to counter the resistance the same as the body does. Or reduce the rate at which blood sugar is released so less storage is needed. Those treatments need constant intervention because the human body is designed for constant adaptation.
Or we can just replace the part like we would with a machine that isn’t designed to be calibrated. Which is hard work.