🚀 go-pugleaf

"Steve Pope" <spope33@speedymail.org> wrote in message
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> Asya Kamsky <asya@bayarea.net> wrote:
>
> > As a friend of mine said (he was in medicinal chemistry not biomed):
>
> >    There *will* be a living system that the drug is tested
> >    on. It will either be animals in the pharmaceutical labs,
> >    or humans in the marketplace. Your choice.
>
> There's a third choice, of course, which is to not develop
> additional new drugs in the first place.  This would save money
> (by defunding fablulously expensive pharmaceutical R&D), it would
> save lots of animals, and if the resources were properly
> reapplied it would improve healthcare and save lives.
>
> But due to the profit motive nobody in the industry would
> seroiusly consider this choice, or even a modest move in this
> direction.

Hmmm well... as an insulin dependent diabetic, I am grateful for the
experimentation that has led to medical advances which might preclude me
from going blind, losing my extremities, or any other host of fun
afflictions associated with diabetes.  Maybe I'll get to live past 50.
gtrgrrrl