I saw a man on a "morning news show" who was promoting a miracle snake oil, actually say that the day before he has talked to an official at a pharmaceutical company who told him there was a cure for most diseases that ail mankind, but the greedy companies were keeping it from people. And I am here to confirm that that is actually true, but there is a caveat. I have personally worked on very effective cures for both solid tumors (cancer) and Alzheimer’s, so I know this to be true. Here is the caveat they have minor side-effects, the anti-cancer agent I worked on would cause massive and strokes and/or heart attacks in basically every person who received the treatment, and the Alzheimer’s therapy would cause massive bleeding in the brain, since without the amyloid plaques to stabilize them all the blood vessels would burst. But if the person managed to survive they would be disease free…
Don’t laugh these were excellent ideas, some very clever science went into making these treatments. Remember my team and I did this work in weeks or months for a couple grand (that is a shoestring budget in my line of work), and created very effective therapies, there was just a few unforeseen problems… (Yes, I think I can get around the side effects but that isn’t my job anymore, so oh well.) Big drug companies could be so lucky; they take years and spent millions to stumble so close to the finish line. At least I didn’t invent an HIV vaccine that only after I infected myself and my team with live HIV, did I discover it only worked in animal models. (True story!) Medical research is full of great discoveries that don’t come out like we hope.
Ok here is the point, there aren’t safe cures for every disease. Yes I am quite aware that it is not in the best interest of these companies to actually cure the disease but it is equally bad business to let you die. Also, there will be no single cure for cancer or heart disease because the is no single disease to cure, those terms are generic terms for dozens of different diseases that will each require a unique treatment. Big pharma doesn’t care about where the drug comes from, if it works they will sell it. The fact that they don’t sell something that could make them money is more telling.
Last but certainly not least the author of “Natural Cures They Don't Want You To Know About” Kevin Trudeau is convicted felon who did time for posing as a doctor and writing >$80K in bad checks, he has been convicted of defrauding 15,000 people, who became reps for his supplement companies. Then in 2003 the FTC banned him from being on infomercials, this man is so bad that he can’t be on infomercials since even they have standards. But I must admire him, since he uses his totally unrelated legal troubles to further himself, claiming that he is the victim of a conspiracy to silence him, so his claims must be real. He stole $122K from American Express over 5 years using false IDs, and plead mental incompetence at his sentencing. That is not a conspiracy against him, it is not persecution, it is prosecution in a district court in Massachusetts.
Oh and for anyone who keeps track I did manage to get some work done tonight, I even made a cool discovery. It is a gene that recycles its core exons with different termini to have 3 or more completely separate functions in different parts of the body. Is this a novel discovery I think so but I will have to wait till tomorrow when I go to work to find out.
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