From: Dickey, Michael F (michael_f_dickey@groton.pfizer.com)
Date: Thu Jun 06 2002 - 07:06:02 MDT
From: Samantha Atkins [mailto:samantha@objectent.com]
"This is greed and should be "patently" and otherwise illegal.
There have been much worse instances. Millions have died,
especially in the third world because of some of the incidents.
There can be no moral/political justification of such results.
As immortality seekers I would expect that all of us stand
apalled at needless deaths just to increas profits."
Of course, Samantha, the issue is more complex than that and the common
counterargument to this is that these drugs would have never even existed in
the first place if pharmaceutical companies hadnt invested in the 400 - 500
million dollars the typical drug costs to find, test, trial, and approve in
hopes of making a profit off of it. The profit motive is the motive that
leads to the invention of the drug in the first place. If you take away the
incentive that the pharma companies have to make drugs, who is going to make
them?
Michael
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