Oooops.
Posted on 05/04/2021 5:17:32 PM PDT by ransomnote
https://www.michaelcrichton.com/patenting-life/
Michael Crichton warned about this very thing in 2007 and why it is so dangerous to allow people to patent a biological organism or a method of surgery etc.
PING - CDC’s patent on Coronavirus from 2003.
Bttt.
5.56mm
You realize that a coronavirus is a general type of virus. They are not all the same.
I cannot believe it’s more than a year into this and people are still this ignorant about what is going on.
“This essay breaks the law”
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/opinion/19crichton.html
Another very good one from 2006. He understood what we happening.
Oooops.
I got to agree with you there, Vermont.
“The speed of light is a constant.
Apples fall to earth because of gravity.
Elevated blood sugar is linked to diabetes.
Elevated uric acid is linked to gout.
Elevated homocysteine is linked to heart disease.
Elevated homocysteine is linked to B-12 deficiency, so doctors should test homocysteine levels to see whether the patient needs vitamins.
ACTUALLY, I can’t make that last statement. A corporation has patented that fact, and demands a royalty for its use. Anyone who makes the fact public and encourages doctors to test for the condition and treat it can be sued for royalty fees. Any doctor who reads a patient’s test results and even thinks of vitamin deficiency infringes the patent. A federal circuit court held that mere thinking violates the patent.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/opinion/19crichton.html
How a government agency personnel, people who get paid with taxpayers money, can own patents? Any researcher at a pharmaceutical company making an invention, by the nature of his contract, sells the rights to such invention to the company that employs him/her for $1.
There are many Corona viruses.
We’re on number 19.
Isolation doesn’t mean they invented it. 🤦🏻♂️
What is even the point of your idiocy?
*Everybody* has sequenced the virus.
Doh!
How a government agency personnel, people who get paid with taxpayers money, can own patents? Any researcher at a pharmaceutical company making an invention, by the nature of his contract, sells the rights to such invention to the company that employs him/her for $1.
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Fauci and 6 others at the NIH own part of the Moderna patent.
You didn’t drill down at ALL, did you?
No, but it means they and only they can study it, do gain of function research on it, make vaccines for it, etc. Unless the other person wants to pay royalties.
This is a very relevant discussion.
And the reason it is called “19” is that somebody named it. That somebody had a patent.
‘Michael Crichton’
Loved him, loved his books, loved his mind. Gone too soon! Just bought a paperback of, ‘State of Fear.’ I’ve read it before, but it’s been a while. Should be required reading for every FReeper.
I don’t know if they made it into a movie, but if they had, I’d love to have had Alec Baldwin playing the part of the jerk ‘movie star’ who gets attacked and eaten by crazy apes!
Yeah. I’m mean like Junkyard Dawg, LOL!
We’re on number 19.
You've got 5 more to go.
Oh wait, that photo’s only a 12-pack. You must have had a relapse and a 2nd case, maybe a new Mexican strain (C W I D T?)
What is even the point of your idiocy? *Everybody* has sequenced the virus.
I think its time you two brain surgeons stopped talking like you know anything about anything. You're embarrassing yourselves.
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