The Water Engine

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21. Yes, but with a few wrinkles

The widely held idea that Pharma suppresses cancer cures in order to sell more chemo is nuts. A cure is a big deal.

A researcher goes to his boss and says, "I cured cancer" and they'll figure out a way to make money from that as best they can. You might as well make something, since someone in South Korea might find the same cure a month later.

Now, it is true that Pharma does less research on treatments that hold little profit potential. There may be some good treatments, or even cures, that have not been discovered because of money interests. But not discovered is quite different from suppressed.

(And most cancer research is government funded anyway.)

There are some human beings who would chose to suppress a cure for HIV/AIDS. (Fundamentalist preachers and such.) And a government could make a political choice to not search for a cure. But that is a far cry from the idea that a cure exists and has been discovered, but that is suppressed.