Bill Gates takes rich to task

[Chuck Munson]

Cian O'Connor wrote:
> 
>  --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > Kevin
> Robert Dean wrote:
> >
> > >And according to the Times of India, Bono had this
> > to
> > >say about the drug companies:
> > >
> > >"I don't think they (the big pharmaceutical
> > companies)
> > >are the bete noir that all my friends think. I
> > think
> > >they need to make profits, we need to do research,"
> > >Bono said.
> >
> > That's not the way I remember it - they need to make
> > profits so they
> > can do the research. He also uttered a lot of crap
> > about not pitting
> > good guys against bad guys, since we all need to
> > work together, etc.
> 
> Except they don't do the research do they. Publicly
> funded universities do.

I did a talk show last week on KIRO out in Seattle. I got grilled about
the WEF protests and anarchism, but I stuck around and took calls. At
one point a caller asked me about my comments about TRIPS and AIDS drugs
in South Africa. It turned out that she worked for a pharmaceutical
company, which she claimed didn't use any government money to develop
new drugs. When I tired to make a similar point about publicly funded
universities, the host and the caller went off on me for making a
"tenuous" argument.

I guess talk radio can't handle the underlying way things work,
including basic stuff like the dissemination of scientific research
through journal literature.

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