I just watched that Burzynski movie on the recommendation of a physician friend. I found it very interesting, provocative, and frankly upsetting. We were both discussing the embedded institutional corruption of our nation and whether we would ever see revolutionary cures come about in our lifetime. There are massive conflicts of interest that currently exist between regulators and the healthcare industry. There are massive profits being made to maintain the status quo and the FDA is on their payroll as the movie illustrated.
The FDA tried for years to block him, and then they collaborated with Elan?? to steal his patents on antineoplastons.
The researcher from the National Cancer Institute had a good suggestion that all government cancer research money should be divided into two parts one for establishment big business approved treatments, and the other for the alternative medicine? At the end of the year the money would be reconfigured based upon successes.
I’m now cynical enough to believe if someone ever developed a 300 mpg carburetor, it would never see the light of day because of the embedded wealth it would destroy. The same outlook with revolutionary cures.
As my previous post shows, I disagree.
If Ford developed a 300 mpg carburetor, they would have every incentive in the world to put it in their own cars (sell more of them), and license it to other car manufacturers (make lots of money).
The oil companies might have an incentive to hide such an invention, but the oil and car companies are two different groups. Why would Ford take a huge reduction in its own profits just to protect the profits of Exxon?
This is similar to the way checks and balances work in our constitution, as Adam Smith recognized centuries ago, the free market works because the participants are selfish people looking out for their own self-interest. It doesn’t require altruistic people to function.