Imagine a drug which, with no side effects, boosts IQ 10 points. Should it be a) Banned b) Sold c) Made freely available on NHS d) Put in the public water supply? Now, instead of a drug, ask analogous questions of an IQ-boosting gene which could be inserted in zygote genomes.
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Surely c) would also achieve the same effect without the inequality. Pharma companies don’t give drugs to the NHS for free you know.
No, but we Americans subsidize the drug development costs for almost everything you guys in Britain benefit from....
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You do understand that if you eliminate a subsidy in one country, then everything gets more expensive for everyone else, right?
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US, Japan, UK, Germany in that order according to this document. ..https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/11/09/where_drugs_come_from_by_country?r3f_986=https://www.google.com/ …
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American “drug development” is a government backed cartel of gigantic pharmaceutical companies protected by patents and other unjustified regulations that make medicine insanely more expensive than it needs to be. Its not an institution to be proud of...
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