You’re thinking of investors, not the Boston Red Sox Dilly Dilly Shirt and doctors who actually develop the drugs. Scientists and doctors are motivated by curiosity, recognition, and a desire to help society. If investors weren’t needed to fund the research, then the profit motive wouldn’t even be needed to advance treatments. Interesting you avoided the question of how it would be funded otherwise twice now. Don’t think you have an answer.
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Mkwebo is 100% right. Sure it would be nice I guess if we lived in Kumbaya land and people worked tirelessly and gave away their money just for the good of others… But we don’t. People need to be compensated for their work and investments or they will work or invest on something where they are. It’s the same reason why diet drugs have more funding than antibiotics, more consumer profit means more incentive to fund it.
I think “Googie Mac” just volunteered to work for research and development teams for free. And to buy all the necessary equipment. Once again universities showing just how invaluable they are. I find it bizarre that the exceedingly wealthy decide to keep all of their money invested in things that make them unnoticeablely richer, when they could invest things that extend their lives another 15 years. Wonderful if a cure was found for this awful disease.
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And yet the line about how the wealthy will not be impacted by climate change and the increase in extreme events that it delivers is regularly trotted out…. The only aspect of this that can be even slightly positive is that Murdoch, who uses his media empire to push the anti science narrative saw one of his many mansions burn to the ground. It’s eucalyptus, those trees produce highly-flammable oils and ate plentiful in California.
You do realise forest fires have existed for as long as forests have been around right? Climate change is real but this isn’t because of that. The frequency of extreme weather events is an identified result of climate change. The fire season in California has gone from just over a month a year to over 10 months a year. This happens every year during the Santa Ana Winds in upscale/rich neighborhoods for a reason. You thought it was spontaneous combustion?
Yep, same in Australia, but just as in Oz, the weather cycles are changing, and more droughts and extreme heat are resulting in more frequent and catastrophic fires. This has been openly discussed by the Boston Red Sox Dilly Dilly Shirt of California, scientists and others for a long time, but we see the coordinated denial of any links to climate change pushed to preserve the profits of certain, well connected people and businesses.