forget petroleum or water, it's going to be about drugs.

[ironymaiden]

a possible cure for AIDS and herpes, and influenza. i have a hard time believing this is true. i also have a feeling this drug could start wars. the research was paid for and the patents held by a US pharmaceutical company. if it does everything it has the potential to do, withholding it from people who can't afford to pay for it seems like murder.

as Grandma says, "we're getting too smart. these are the end times."

Comments

[spazzychic.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping, if it works, we will go all smallpox hunter on AIDS ass...

[pixxelpuss.livejournal.com]

I reserve judgement. I'd love for a cure to exist, but I'd really prefer if it didn't cause global insanity while the US gov't defends corporate rights to rape and pillage. The best possible solution I can think of is (again, if this thing is for real) having the say, 10 wealthiest countries in the world pay proportionate amounts of the R&D costs plus some kind of smallish financial reward to the drug company, and essentially Open Sourcing it, allowing all national governments to get in on the manufacture and distribution of the drug. Of course, the US may not go for that (especially since they'd be expected to pay the most or they may percieve it as a threat to their sovereignty and capitalism). Then the military comes out. Ugh. This bizarre alternate reality I'm creating is getting ugly. Of course, the Republicans could gain massive public support by handling this properly, so it still might be in their best interests to be good people...

[mort-q.livejournal.com]

we're getting too smart. these are the end times.

That would be a tad scarier if it wasn't said every generation... but the point is taken.

[boldfeather.livejournal.com]

This is one of the many reasons I chose to leave my "career" in research.