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jc100 said:
Thats nonsense. There are many times that governments have gone against big pharma let alone scientists (who all sit on the peer review boards and are from academia). During the SARS crisis the canadian government threatened to make the main active antibiotic cipro, contravening world patent laws, in an act of self preservation because BAYER tried to extort cash from the Canadians by claiming low inventory. BAYER suddenly found lots of inventory at the right price.

As for cancer, my biggest gripe is that a few of the charities have been hijacked by other causes. One that comes to mind was when male breast cancer survivors were not allowed in one run as it would not have sent the right optics that the charity wanted. Gripe #2 is that we do quite a bit of crap research in canada that is more oriented towards keeping a researcher in the gravy. Grant money can get siphoned away towards other pet vanity projects that get easy papers. It is hard to know if your $$ are being spent on effective research.
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So the Government stepped in when it looked like the entire country could be infected/effected and people/tax payers die in large numbers.
Ok, got it...I guess all these cancer patients should try to die at the same time to get the Government to step in.

I will disagree with you about the road to being published as a former friend of mine works/worked in a large lab in TO and I "saw" the process and delays plus if you guys only knew of the double dipping and conflicts of interests of people in charge of these labs that also serve on boards which ties back to how much funding they receive which pays them at the top directly (pays 6 digits).

I will digress, just ask yourself when you are 80 if you will be seeing the run for cure still. By then you will have a new cause to run for.:p
 
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So the Government stepped in when it looked like the entire country could be infected/effected and people/tax payers die in large numbers.
Ok, got it...I guess all these cancer patients should try to die at the same time to get the Government to step in.

I will disagree with you about the road to being published as a former friend of mine works/worked in a large lab in TO and I "saw" the process and delays plus if you guys only knew of the double dipping and conflicts of interests of people in charge of these labs that also serve on boards which ties back to how much funding they receive which pays them at the top directly (pays 6 digits).

I will digress, just ask yourself when you are 80 if you will be seeing the run for cure still. By then you will have a new cause to run for.:p
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You can disagree with me but I have more than 20 publications in the pharmaceutical field and others so I have an idea of what I'm talking about. I also know the trouble quite a few scientists have gotten into by publishing results that go against pharmaceutical companies. It does happen, those results are published and are widely available.
 
jc100 said:
You can disagree with me but I have more than 20 publications in the pharmaceutical field and others so I have an idea of what I'm talking about. I also know the trouble quite a few scientists have gotten into by publishing results that go against pharmaceutical companies. It does happen, those results are published and are widely available.
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good discussion
I will end what you stated and I put in bold
 
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