I'm completely ignorant about this but wouldn't it depend on the media source? |
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What? I'm sorry, WHAT? You're actually trying to convince us that the MEDIA is anti-religion? The media is actually mostly conservative, pro-religion, pro-gender norms and anti-intellectual, so it's FAR more of a risk for the media to show an atheist's perspective. After all, the nutjob religious groups would get mad, and they certainly don't want that. You can't even take the Lord's name in vain on TV. |
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DILDs: A Lot
I'm completely ignorant about this but wouldn't it depend on the media source? |
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The more I return to this thread the harder and colder my heart becomes. |
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Interesting to note that in the US most prescriptions (69%) are generic drugs. Sales in 2007 were ~$59bn verses $228bn for branded drugs. There is a huge market for stuff that works. Even if you can't patent a drug you can still make a shitload from selling it. |
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Prayer heals the heart. |
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When did I mention crystals? Nice fallacy. Funny you tell me I need to research Big Pharma more but here it seems I have to explain to you how the system works. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
If I had cancer I'd give money to anybody supplying a superior substance. |
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Kudos for the patience and perseverance. |
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The FDA requires all generic drugs be identical to their counterparts. Adding a new active ingredient changes the formula so it can change the way it effects the body. Adding something new to a patented drug in order to bypass the patent law is illegal, known as a designer drug and can only be sold illegally. This is because it's dangerous to sell an untested product. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
Look who's talking |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
Well, that's definitely true. |
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But the truth is also that products that can make money with patents have a more lubricated ride through the testing phase. I'm not trying to imply that pharmaceutical companies hold some sort of monopoly. All I am saying is that medicine which cannot be patented is mislabeled alternative medicine by the Big Pharma PR machine. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
Yeah, I do agree with you on that for the most part. |
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Photolysis just patiently dealt with this idea. Like an additional 25% of their income comes from unpatented drugs. Medicines that are genuinely cheaper and work better simply can't fail to be produced under market forces. You dismissed pretty much the whole post as an ad hominem. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
I love how a large majority of people believe pharmaceuticals are evil corporations suppressing medicine and solutions for cancer. |
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Yes there is |
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Government doesn't approve medicine. There are regulatory agencies which consist entirely of people either from the pharmaceutical industry, or with direct monetary ties to the pharmaceutical industry (i.e bribes). |
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I never said medicine which can't get patented is banned (marijuana is an exception, though) but what I was arguing was that if medicine can be patented, its testing process gets lubricated by Big Pharma and researchers are too busy working on all the crap that Big Pharma is trying to make a profit from to research medicine which cannot be patented. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
Then again, you can patent an extraction process. Which is what GW Pharmaceuticals are doing for the countries where it appears medical marijuana is never going to be legalised *sigh*.... |
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This is hardly convincing evidence that new age medicine is more effective than "western medicine". Besides stomach ulcers are caused by a bacterium in the gut not stress. If stress is correlated in any way with the presence of ulcers, I would imagine that the evidence would be dubious at best; considering that people who have ulcers have a disposition to be effing stressed in the first place. Where there is smoke there is fire as they say. |
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