I’ve heard people say big pharma has no interest in permanent cures because there's more money in lifelong treatments.
I don’t know if that’s really true, but sometimes I wonder, like with all the advancements we’ve made, why do so many chronic conditions still have zero real solutions, just expensive pill subscriptions?
Look what happened to Biogen. Their development of Hepatitis B vaccines and one time treatments almost eradicated the disease or at least the chronic nature of the disease and their stock is 1/3 of where it was when it peaked so yeah there is a big incentive for these companies to develop treatments not cures.
Yeah, anytime someone actually solves a problem, the system either ignores it, buries it, or kills ‘em. Dr. Gagnon figured out how to stop ulcers in racehorses with one treatment, messed with a billion-dollar pharma stream, and then got “found dead” in suspicious circumstances a year later, with his barn burned down. Insulin was invented as open source, meant to be free, but now it’s a cartel product. For them curing isn’t profitable. That mindset’s infecting everything, from vaccines to mental health to cancer research