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[meadowlander]

59. What do you want to "discuss" about drug prices?

Isn't "more demand will increase prices" Economics 101? Are you expecting someone to disagree with that?

You posted a thread called "Scientists 'switch off' autism".

The natural discussion points arising from that are "what does 'switching off" autism mean" and "what are the ethical implication of doing that" not "golly I wonder what will happen to the price of the drug ten years down the line when this study of something that may or may not do something to rats may or may not be approved for human use. Will they go up? I don't know".

Nobody is scolding you. I am genuinely asking you to take a breath and an honest look at why you feel the need to try to confine this discussion to talking about drug prices when that means trying to shut autistic people out of a discussion about what a proposed drug for autism might mean for them.

I'd also note that comments downthread about how great this will be as a potential miracle cure are similarly off-topic to your proposed discussion point on drug prices but you are not accusing any of those people of threadjacking.

Also not every question or statement posted on this thread is someone asking you specifically. When you respond to a general question like "What symptoms are we talking about?" with "I'm not a doctor" or "I didn't write the article" like it's not a legitimate question to ask, you are trying to shut down a legitimate line of discussion. You have the option to simply not respond to that question if you don't know and see if anyone else who knows more about it wants to respond. But instead you're acting like any attempt to clarify what the article is about or what it might mean for people or to fact check misinformation in it is a personal attack on you. It's not.