In a message dated 8/31/2004 9:16:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But your keen understanding of _Capitalist_ just clarified my point. Do you think you are so much smarter than any advisor that has ever counseled the drug companies? Don't you think any other intelligent consultant could duplicate your reasoning that it's a bad idea to research a drug that cures disease X instead of a drug that keeps a X-patient forced _forever_ to buy drugs that will extend his life? Unfortunately cures are actually rare. Antibioitics cured many bacterial diseases in the past but even these drugs are losing their effectiveness, their abillity to cure. Curing things like most cancers AIDS and Alzheimer Disease is unlikely to occur because these diseases are too intrinsic to our own bodies. Control can be achieved by understanding the mechanisms that allow the process to progress and controlling those processes but since there is no clear boundry between disease and no disease cures are hard to come by. But I will also tell you that I have worked at Memorial Hospital in the past and provide consultative services for the radiology department now. The physicians there are not cold hearted researechers looking only for treatment to make themselves and their corporate lords happy. I am no lover of the pharmacuticals industry but to suggest that they have coopted the majority of researchers to the profit motive is simply incorrect and it does a diservice to those people who devote their careers to the often disheartening task of treating cancer patients _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
