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Cool, so they'll get bought up by an Alzheimer's medicine company that produces a medicine that doesn't work, and we'll never hear of this breakthrough again.
Capitalism is great at killing off medicines that work, there's less profit in medicines that work.
There's no reason to be needlessly jaded. Those companies would absolutely produce this if it worked, because you'd have to take it forever.
The Internet is full of Dunning Kruger idiots who don't understand profit maximisation but believe they do.
Given the number of bubbles that collapse the economy, neither does Wallstreet
The bubble is the point. They maximize their profits and then leave the rest of the idiots holding the bag.
Too big to fail. They're still maximising their profits, just not yours.
Wdym? If a drug like this were successful, everybody with any markers for Alzheimer's would want to be in on it. They'd make bank for several years, until the patent expires, and then they'd have other methods of extending the patent and prolonging market exclusivity.
Sorry but this is a shit talking point. What drug companies fear is the eradication of an ailment, and particularly by non-pharmaceutical means (i.e. gene therapy).
Even something that's 100% effective in preventing Alzheimer's, would still see a hell of a market.
And if such a drug is possible, then there's the game theory question. Any pharma exec knows that if their company can make a breakthrough medicine...so too could another company. Is it worth it for them to sit on it, only for another company to make the same discovery a year or two later and bring it to market?
This doesn't make sense though, if they have a drug that works, they'll make fucking bank. Pharmaceutical companies would kill for a blockbuster drug like that
Conspiracy theorists alert! Bet you are antivax too.
Capitalism is great for burying all sorts of innovative ideas and holding back progress so profits can be made using sunk investments.