Re:Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease
by skookumchuck on Friday April 26, 2019 @01:03AM
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> the side effect is that developing a not-quite-cure treatment for 50,000 people is more profitable than both the others.
Until someone else develops a cure and takes all your business away.
Recall that a company blinded by greed developed a cure for Hepatitis C, not a treatment.
But in the first paragraph, the side effect is that developing a not-quite-cure treatment for 50,000 people is more profitable than both the others.
As for the last paragraph, this is perhaps the essence of the problem. The motive is profit, so we only care about the advertisers. But the users are real people too, and they are getting screwed.