Re:Come on (Score 1)

Are you serious? You do realize that the researchers you mention are normal people - we get colds, we get cancer, we get diabetes, we bleed and we die. It's small minded of you to think that researchers don't have the motivation to try and cure diseases. Hell, the reason half of us go into research in the first place is because someone we know and love has a disease. While I agree that big pharma would generally rather put their money into treatments than cures, you can't ignore drugs like Gleevec (developed by Novartis = big pharma). Gleevec is more or less a magic bullet that for all intents and purposes cures a form of childhood leukemia. I mean it just seems like you're saying that all scientists are in it together to stop progress on curing diseases, and that is just not true. Yes, pharma can cut research on whatever they want, but if they were truly onto something that was going to cure a disease, they would bring it to market. For one, the patent would generate a ton of revenue, and the positive press would send their stock prices through the statosphere. And you can't ignore that a lot of research is done by individuals, and results are published in the public domain. They're not hiding anything. If they could honestly cure something right now, they would - if for no other reason then to feed their ego by winning a Nobel.