We have a lot of " Not for profit " charities who do research and development of treatment. Cancer research UK etc etc etc
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We have a lot of " Not for profit " charities who do research and development of treatment. Cancer research UK etc etc etc
It doesn't buy progressive/left votes either
ijjysmith
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You can find anything on the Internet to back an argument. Doesn't mean it's right.
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Not for cancer and the like. You get sick you buy lemsips. you get a cough you buy cough medicine.
Its not like you get serious illnesses on a yearly basis. so once you cured yourself you may never need to buy the same stuff again. That is where it is focused. they also dont want a world wide pandemic spreading that they cant control so vaacine the less serious stuff.
I am NOT saying there is a cure for cancer before anyone thinks i am. what i am saying is perhaps there is much less emphasis on looking for one than it appears.
But you will just diasgree anyway
I'll give it a go....
Although I agree we rely too much on for profit business to do medical research, a lot of the money they spend is in the form of grants. They give this money generally to University researchers. For many/most of these grants the companies have little to no input in the actual research. University researchers do have to produce results or they are soon without a position at the University.
My guess is now you will have issues with the integrity of University researchers.
Ashtonian
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i'm not saying i'm right, its an opinion. You disagree quite clearly, but doesn't make either of us wrong or right.
Unless im on grand old Ijjy .com
ijjysmith
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Not for cancer and the like. You get sick you buy lemsips. you get a cough you buy cough medicine.
Its not like you get serious illnesses on a yearly basis. so once you cured yourself you may never need to buy the same stuff again. That is where it is focused. they also dont want a world wide pandemic spreading that they cant control so vaacine the less serious stuff.
I am NOT saying there is a cure for cancer before anyone thinks i am. what i am saying is perhaps there is much less emphasis on looking for one than it appears.
But you will just diasgree anyway
You need to be very careful mate as you're dealing with things you don't fully understand.
My dad recovered from cancer due to brilliant doctors and a hell of a lot of research going into getting him and many others better.
According to you he shouldn't have got better just so people kept putting money into it.
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Polio, smallpox, whooping cough and tuberculosis were all serious and have been eliminated in this country through vaccination.
Wait a minute, he will come back and say they were average in a minute.
Ashtonian
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Not said that either. Of course people get better otherwise the world would be a very grim place to be in.
but tell me ijjy how is me saying that the companies tasked with finding these serious cures arent arsed as long as they can keep making money got ANYTHING to do with anyone close to you? not in any way is what im saying targeted to anyone or anything and i have even been careful to watch the c word and talk about a broader area.
But ok, is there a general cure yes there is. Is there an instant cure for these illness? Not in our life time i can gaurantee that.
Agreed (my vote being the exception.....job security, self-preservation and all that)
But can/would pull in the "not voting for someone, but against the other one" vote.
Part of your answer is here:
The "reason" there is "no cure for cancer" is largely because it's new. 100 years ago there was little concern for cancer is because few people were living long enough to be diagnosed, or more specifically they were dying of other diseases at younger ages. Some may have had cancer but never knew, or it may have been misdiagnosed. Life expectancy 100 years ago in England was barely 40!
An unintentional consequence of the success of modern medicine is the "emergence" of new diseases; these disease almost certainly existed but had no opportunity to present. As "modern medicine" found treatment for simple infections (penicillin) and vaccines for deadly infectious diseases (polio; plague), "new" illnesses seemed to spring up. When the average man died at 45, he had no concern for heart health, but now that the average man is dying at 75, his nemesis is not infectious disease but these cardiovascular diseases, etc. Cancer is no different.
Now, should you be skeptical that drug companies have as their primary concern making money from you? Maybe so; but to then conclude that they are perpetuating disease for profit is... well, little better than this:
ijjysmith
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You absolutely cannot guarantee that.
Ashtonian
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Whooping cough isnt the same as being HIV or that bracket of illness. It is serious to your health but it isnt the same. And yes they would look to eradicate something easily transmitted through the air or whatever depending on the illness as it is not the same as something that you cant help.
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