Posted: May 25, 2010 6:36 pm
Do you have evidence for regular large scale manipulations in statistics by unscrupulous officials, ones which were overlooked when they came to light?
The reason the pharma industry is profit driven is simple, the investments needed and the the money that has to be spent on trials is enormous, and the development of novel chemotherapeutic agents has a very high failure rate, 90% to be precise if I'm citing from Basic Biotechnology, Ratledge & Kristiansen, Cambridge University Press.
Without profits, R & D will simply not have the funding to continue, of course, there are plenty of agencies such as the Wellcome Trust funding research and development, and hopefully that will resolve the situation to some extent.
Coming to Homeopathy, all evidence points to it being totally bunk, and if it is bunk, then to still allow practitioners to claim that it works , thus deceiving people and depriving them of medicine that is a lot more efficacious is an ethical and a scientific no-go.
The scientific community itself has been trying to work towards solving the affordability and access problems associated with the pharma industry, with ventures like this one http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Source_Drug_Discovery
The reason the pharma industry is profit driven is simple, the investments needed and the the money that has to be spent on trials is enormous, and the development of novel chemotherapeutic agents has a very high failure rate, 90% to be precise if I'm citing from Basic Biotechnology, Ratledge & Kristiansen, Cambridge University Press.
Without profits, R & D will simply not have the funding to continue, of course, there are plenty of agencies such as the Wellcome Trust funding research and development, and hopefully that will resolve the situation to some extent.
Coming to Homeopathy, all evidence points to it being totally bunk, and if it is bunk, then to still allow practitioners to claim that it works , thus deceiving people and depriving them of medicine that is a lot more efficacious is an ethical and a scientific no-go.
The scientific community itself has been trying to work towards solving the affordability and access problems associated with the pharma industry, with ventures like this one http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Source_Drug_Discovery