Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
There are two generally prevailing ideas about the thorny relationship between pharmaceutical companies and diabetes research.
# 1: Pharmaceutical companies don?t want to cure diabetes because a cure would cost them billions in yearly revenue.
# 2: Pharmaceutical companies are the only ones with the resources and expertise to cure diabetes, and they are working day and night to come up with a cure.
I?ve literally traveled the world reporting on and writing about clinical research and big corporations involved in it, and I can say the truth between these two statements is somewhere in the middle.
Corporations who specialize in clinical research and healthcare almost certainly are not working together to prevent finding a cure for diabetes. That?s because these companies don?t do anything together. They are intensely competitive. These guys would cross a highway at rush hour without looking left or right to avoid eye contact with one another. They typically do not meet, share research, collaborate, or otherwise commingle resources or information in any way. The idea of a corporately sponsored conspiracy being hatched and maintained to cure or not cure diabetes, or any disease, is laughable.
http://asweetlife.org/alex/blogs/ne...-and-curing-diabetes-people-vs-profits/30672/
# 1: Pharmaceutical companies don?t want to cure diabetes because a cure would cost them billions in yearly revenue.
# 2: Pharmaceutical companies are the only ones with the resources and expertise to cure diabetes, and they are working day and night to come up with a cure.
I?ve literally traveled the world reporting on and writing about clinical research and big corporations involved in it, and I can say the truth between these two statements is somewhere in the middle.
Corporations who specialize in clinical research and healthcare almost certainly are not working together to prevent finding a cure for diabetes. That?s because these companies don?t do anything together. They are intensely competitive. These guys would cross a highway at rush hour without looking left or right to avoid eye contact with one another. They typically do not meet, share research, collaborate, or otherwise commingle resources or information in any way. The idea of a corporately sponsored conspiracy being hatched and maintained to cure or not cure diabetes, or any disease, is laughable.
http://asweetlife.org/alex/blogs/ne...-and-curing-diabetes-people-vs-profits/30672/