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What’s a conspiracy theory you find oddly believable?
176 sats \ 2 comments \ @seashell 14 Jun AskSN
I’ve heard people say big pharma has no interest in permanent cures because there's more money in lifelong treatments.
I don’t know if that’s really true, but sometimes I wonder, like with all the advancements we’ve made, why do so many chronic conditions still have zero real solutions, just expensive pill subscriptions?
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 14 Jun
Look what happened to Biogen. Their development of Hepatitis B vaccines and one time treatments almost eradicated the disease or at least the chronic nature of the disease and their stock is 1/3 of where it was when it peaked so yeah there is a big incentive for these companies to develop treatments not cures.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @seashell OP 14 Jun
Yeah, anytime someone actually solves a problem, the system either ignores it, buries it, or kills ‘em. Dr. Gagnon figured out how to stop ulcers in racehorses with one treatment, messed with a billion-dollar pharma stream, and then got “found dead” in suspicious circumstances a year later, with his barn burned down. Insulin was invented as open source, meant to be free, but now it’s a cartel product. For them curing isn’t profitable. That mindset’s infecting everything, from vaccines to mental health to cancer research
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