Companies do not have morals! Any company with morals would not survive in pharma. Those who do not do whatever is possible to maximise profits (including 'sponsoring' political campaigns or letting people die) are themselves subject to natural selection. We need a change to the current system where companies can influence governments so heavily. Ideas? money to implement ideas? anyone?
Einstein took the two words we humans invented "space" and "time". He said "balls! there isn't one without the other!" he gave us the idea of spacetime. In our everyday language we still haven't caught up yet, we take space and time as separate in most situations because its easy for us.
Humans have also invented the two words "mind" and "body". The placebo effect arises from the fact that the mind and the body are only separated by our language, not by nature.
while you cant cure aids with placebo but taking a pill and getting care from a doctor when you are depressed will of course make you feel better.
As far as the Big Pharma companies go, in order to have survived so far, they have to make money and stop other dudes from making more. its natural evolution. in order to change how they do this we have to change their environment. I like the 'chinese healer who doesn't get paid if his patient gets sick' model.
Problem is every government is sponsored by these companies, they employ millions of people and are really successful at what they do, be that bribing/persuading doctors to sell their products or pouring money into research to develop a new anti-retroviral drug...this is how they have become so successful and they dont want to change the game...
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Use Tamiflu or get the flu?
An interesting aside...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427345.100-common-cold-may-hold-off-swine-flu.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
ideas?
Companies do not have morals! Any company with morals would not survive in pharma. Those who do not do whatever is possible to maximise profits (including 'sponsoring' political campaigns or letting people die) are themselves subject to natural selection. We need a change to the current system where companies can influence governments so heavily. Ideas? money to implement ideas? anyone?
Einstein took the two words we humans invented "space" and "time". He said "balls! there isn't one without the other!" he gave us the idea of spacetime. In our everyday language we still haven't caught up yet, we take space and time as separate in most situations because its easy for us.
Humans have also invented the two words "mind" and "body". The placebo effect arises from the fact that the mind and the body are only separated by our language, not by nature.
while you cant cure aids with placebo but taking a pill and getting care from a doctor when you are depressed will of course make you feel better.
As far as the Big Pharma companies go, in order to have survived so far, they have to make money and stop other dudes from making more. its natural evolution. in order to change how they do this we have to change their environment. I like the 'chinese healer who doesn't get paid if his patient gets sick' model.
Problem is every government is sponsored by these companies, they employ millions of people and are really successful at what they do, be that bribing/persuading doctors to sell their products or pouring money into research to develop a new anti-retroviral drug...this is how they have become so successful and they dont want to change the game...