Good job all you Dal frosh standing on the corners collecting donations for a worthy cause. NOW STOP SAYING YOU’RE SUPPORTING CYSTIC FIBROSIS!!! You’re supporting the cure, not the disease. That’s a really important distinction. The disease is doing well without your support, thanks. The research, on the other hand, costs money and that’s what you’re raising at the intersections.
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Well I’m not going to donate next time if that is the case.
there’s no money in cures, but there are obscene profits in treating disease
Yup…Cancer, AIDS, ect; are multi billion dollar a year profit makers. The Halifax hosted “run for the cure” for breast cancer, will earn the US based promoter over a million dollars…they are taking a minimum of half of the proceeds.
i was speaking about the ‘disease industry’, whose primary business is the development & manufacture of a myriad of (massively profitable) products to ‘treat’ disease, instead of spending (our) money on R&D into cures & disease preventionand as you mentioned, parasitic event promoters also skim huge profits from sickness & diseasebtw, when was the last time we’ve seen a cure for any major disease, anybody know?