Reply #54: Which is why there has been fuck all research on vaccines...

[TheMadMonk]

...that can't be marketed in first world countries.

Pharma does not do vaccines because there is money to be made there. They continue to do vaccines (most developed with public money) because if they don't someone might try to get a closer look at the books.

I don't dispute that Big Pharma is riddled with corruption. Hell we can find dozens of instances of their putting profit ahead of the client/patient.

So WHY THE FUCK are you so determined to "catch" them in an impossibly complex hyper-conspiracy, which makes no sense AND profits absolutely nobody?

Actually I think I know the answer: In this world it takes dead children to get people to pay attention. The Viox (or however u spell it) scandal certainly didn't do it. "Victims" are making a grab (which may well be justified) for "compensation" and everyone else remains far more interested in pissing and moaning about their mortgage, whilst ignoring the 150 cm (will you just look at my tonker) paycheck eating monstrosity on the wall. (Recent research has shown it is not rising mortgage costs breaking the bank, but frivolous big ticket items such as plasma TVs, secured by the tiny bit of equity the borrower possesses in his home.)

In the past the repo man came and took said TV. Today the bank says "Keep it the worthless thing and thanks for the house."

O.K. it's bad form to take advantage of the mentally incompetent, and I do decry those who set out to do so. However, there is a limit to the level of sympathy I have for idiots who contribute to their own destruction, since most such are not undone by the skill of those "skinning" them, but by their own, innate personal greed.