Some are more cynical than others. I don’t think we were deriding the efforts at the actual care and research levels but more directed at the folks in the high towers. Sorry if that upset you.
Agreed. I’m more suspicious of the higher-ups, too. The doctors and researchers themselves don’t conspire.
My own oncologist, who got rid of my own cancer, was a decent, caring man who died way too early (in ‘97). A few years after I finally went into remission — for good, it turned out — he told me that the chemo treatment protocol he used for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma — my cancer — had changed. Some of the medicines that he used on me weren’t included anymore. His success rate had gone down as a result of following the new protocol.
Sheesh.
There is an old myth, circulating for years, that "Big Auto" has suppressed the R&D of electric cars. Pure BS. There is already a huge, guaranteed, market of duped liberals for electric cars. No automaker would stand in the way of parting a fool from his money.
The new therapies in cancer are going to be worth, literally, hundreds of billions. Big Pharma wants that money, and every pharmaceutical company knows damn well that if they tried to suppress a particular cure, their competition would not, and they'd be slaughtered in the marketplace.
You need more faith in capitalism. It works.