No one, including me, argues that Pharmaceutical companies aren't interested in making extra money. That's one thing. I'm not talking about that truism.Sushan wrote: ↑July 15th, 2021, 12:48 pmWe are still using oral penicillin for various infections, but now we are using advance antibiotics more frequently as the bacteria are getting resistant to traditional antibiotics. Can these Big Pharma can create such resistant bacteria? I think so. Think about the accusation that China gets telling that they created the Corona virus.LuckyR wrote: ↑July 12th, 2021, 2:03 pmWell according to the "logic" some invoke, the Big Pharma international conspiracy group would suppress antibiotics since penicillin cures strept throat and the conspirators can make more money selling cough syrup again and again. Similarly Big Pharma would have conspired to make appendectomies illegal since that cures appendicitis in 30 minutes whereas they could sell pain medicine for weeks in it's absence.Sushan wrote: ↑July 12th, 2021, 7:29 amAntibiotics were not initially man made. It was a creation of the nature for the protection of the bacterias. People could extract them, study them and reproduce them. And now we have commercially available antibiotics. Antibiotics can eradicate various infections, but can they do it always?
Surgery was a practice that was available for more than thousand years. It has been developed throughout the history and has come to today's level. But can surgery cure everything?
Follow the money, obvious, right?
Does that make sense to anyone?
When we come to appendisectomy, it is a common, simple surgery which has been performed for years by many doctors and that is why it does not have a big name like "Hartman's procedure". I do not know from where this banning idea for such routine surgeries came. But if we think about the theory of following money, even this sort of routine surgeries are made more sophisticated for the comfort of the patient, but with more expenses from the patient.
Rather I am addressing specifically the nonsensical conspiracy theory type that this or that difficult or impossible problem is actually quite easy to solve except that this or that Powerful Company has suppressed the easy solution because Powerful Company can make more money with older technology that addresses but doesn't solve the problem.
In the back of magazines anyone can buy a $20 gizmo that can make your car get 200 miles per gallon, but the Powerful Oil Industry has suppressed the technology (of course no one mentions that the quite powerful automobile industry would love this tech and somehow can't get it but you can get it from an ad in the back of a magazine). Similarly, the greatest minds can only make small incremental improvements in cancer treatment, but a nobody in Arizona can cure all cancer with baking soda and vitamin C.
Anyone interested in buying a bridge? I'm a Nigerian prince. No seriously I am.