• Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    1 day ago

    Am I wrong to be paranoid that if corporations found out about plants that could cure this or that disease forever, that they may destroy those plants to maintain a money faucet for treatments (as in not permanent cures)?

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      16 hours ago

      That’s just stupid. You can make a million selling some medication each month for the rest of a patients life, and simultantiously sell the cure for 2 million to the rich patients.

    • tetris11@feddit.uk
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      1 day ago

      Hard to contain a plant and a cure like this. Science has a weird way of several people discovering the same thing around the same time.

      It’s like the conditions that made it probable for one person to discover it are the same conditions that make it probable for 10 people to discover it.

    • psud@aussie.zone
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      19 hours ago

      You would not believe the number of untreatable illnesses can be cured by diet and how hard that diet is being suppressed.