Companies like Eli Lilly, Merck, GSK, Bristol-Meyers Squibb cause and perpetuate massive amounts of human suffering. I view them on the same level as Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. Input?
Companies like Eli Lilly, Merck, GSK, Bristol-Meyers Squibb cause and perpetuate massive amounts of human suffering. I view them on the same level as Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. Input?
I mean, a thing they can do is more profitable than a thing they can't, yes. What do you think cancer treatment is?
The problem being that there’s less of a profit incentive in researching a means to eliminate a disease rather than just treating individuals indefinitely.
Perhaps cancer was a bad example, but I think it gets the point across.
Yeah, as soon as non-chemo, proton, etc. cancer cures are found they will be available to the upper-class, medical advancements aren't kept secret, but...
Guess which form of cancer is at the forefront of research in terms of finding cures/prevention. Melanoma. Can you guess why?
Because it has a well understood oncogenesis, because immunotherapy and selective therapy drugs tend to work well against Melanomas, and because since it's localized in peripheral tissues it's easy to access and model?
Nah cause its for white people /hj
All cancer treatments disproportionately benefit white people, as they can disproportionately afford them and disproportionately have better access to diagnostic tests. It actually wouldn't be sufficient to explain the difference in why melanoma treatments are more developed.