Posted on 10/04/2021 6:39:31 PM PDT by algore
“Bunch of crap.”
I tend to agree. if we had a copyright law that was as the founders intended, there would not be a reason for “an estate” to last this long.
Imagine if things that Should be Public Domain were.
If only the medicine guys had record label type lawyers. They could have paid her $30 and owned the rights forever.
Lobbing an unprovoked insult at me for simply saying the family deserves compensation says way more about you than it does me.
Some people might even say that you are a touchy bastard but I will not. I forgive all bastards and would never call a bastard a bastard.
You are welcome! 😎
Intellectual Property laws are a tough area. I have no idea how to do it “right” but from what I see, the artists don’t get much, and the public has to pay an arm and a leg for stuff produced long, long ago. The corporations rake in all the money while screwing everybody else, and they act like “without us, there would be no art”. Personally, I think that’s a crock. But, I have no idea how to do it “right”.
I’ve even used HeLa cells to test one of my products.
Still have stock in the company.
$7.43 worth of stock...
and this late?
TONS of payouts to sons, daughters.
and if they’re dead, grandsons and daughters.
but, only once.
Why only once?
Would you let them vote only once???
How many people have been harmed by these cells? Is the family prepared to take responsibility for all the liabilities?
How many people have been harmed by these cells? Is the family prepared to take responsibility for all the liabilities?
Uh, the article is wrong. I read the book. the cells are immortal. That’s why they are used. You can clone any cell, and the cell line will die out, just like you will.....In her cells, the cellular machinery has been modified (by mutation) to make her cells immortal, they can reproduce forever, and the DNA does now “wear out”.
Interestingly, this is proof positive that mankind WAS once immortal, and will be again.
I’m not really interested in my flesh being immortal.
My soul, yes; and I think God already arranged for that.
What harm do you suspect has been done?
Nothing rightful about it. Shakedown pure and simple. Next you’ll be saying that slavery reparations are rightful.
It’s a good read. Those cells have done a lot of good work in medical research.
Unprovoked? You advocate communist mafia behavior. AOC level crap in saying:
“The family will likely get their money and rightfully so.”
It’s hard to believe anyone here buys this utter grift and strong arm grab with race-baiting BLM crap used in support. .
It’s stuff communists or mafia do.
HeLa cells were developed and invented, created, cultivated over long time with determination, creativity, perseverance and hard work from garbage - something that otherwise would be incinerated 70 years ago.
Leftists always steal and destroy. That’s all they can do.
Read your Bible. Most Christians don’t know about the Resurrection of the dead and the 1000 year reign and the new earth.
We will not be floating spirits with a harp. We will be perfected in the flesh eventually and the soul and the spirit.
Did not Jesus show he has a body that could be touched and did he not eat?
I’m a philosophical Christian; but I don’t take everything in the NT literally.
If you do, I have no problem with how you believe.
John 11
23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
24 Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; 26 and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
27 “Yes, Lord,” she replied, “I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.”
so, if Martha was WRONG, Jesus would have corrected her. My point is, there is a physical resurrection at/after the last of days.
BTW, the Sadducees denied the resurrection of the last days, but the Pharisees did not. So, similar to today. Jesus confirmed the Sadducees’ belief in a physical resurrection (i.e. we will have bodies)
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