Could You Patent the Sun? | Retro Report
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
- Decades after Dr. Jonas Salk opposed patenting the polio vaccine, the pharmaceutical industry has changed. What does that mean for the development of innovative drugs and for people whose lives depend on them?
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"What is more important? The human value of the dollar, or the dollar value of the human."
This is beautiful and horrifying at once.
That's truly just a stylish statement of the essential problem of capitalism. Capitalism says, "The latter, unequivocally." And everyone can tell that's an outrage, one we shouldn't have to live with.
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The government should regulate medication prices, help pay for medication for those who need, and finance research to combat major epidemics.
Drugs don't cost that much to produce, its greed. We are giving our tax money to profiteers.
Thue Morse I understand you. However, this could all be changed without the interference of the government by instigating and supporting a mass cultural change so that we wouldn't need to be babysat.
@@victoriamatter7455 LOL. You must be smoking some pretty good stuff. Where can I buy it?
They don't cost much to produce. They cost millions to research and develop.
@@hephaestus6365 the research and development is often paid by tax dollars.
5:40 "I think it's important to look at the advancements that we've gotten. And ask whether or not the advancements would have occurred if we didn't have a for profit industry." - Lori Reilly
This is the main problem with the pharmaceutical industry in America. Innovation based of greed and profit. Not from the motive of compassion to help humanity. Ironically many of the doctorate pharmaceutical researchers take the hypocritic oath upon graduation from med school. It begs the question that in this mode of research is the oath being up held?
🙏 Jonas Salk
Wait, so the government pays for all of the research and the companies just rake in the money like leaves? That's ridiculous!
EDIT: 8:00 is a perfect example of how people NOT motivated by profit will quickly come up with innovations and life-saving techniques.
Yep that's good ole American capitalism at work
Thank you for covering this.
Bet you Jonas Salk would have cured most cancers.
Thank god in australia our pharmaceuticals are regulated and subsidized by our government. For every name brand drug there usually is a cheaper generic option for patients to choose. Being poor and sick isnt a death sentence or a financial travesty down under
This makes me both sad and angry
Keep up the good work Retroreport :-)
Dr. Salk.....my hero.
Really wish his mindset was still the norm
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society - Jiddu Krishnamurti
I love that line at end about value.
Imagine not giving a drug to a dying person bc u need to get more richer, psychopaths
this man is a legend
Just another case of corporate welfare. Tax dollars go into funding research so the pharmaceutical companies can turn around and rake in the profits.
We need more Dr Salks!!!
Pray the Father in Heaven will send Dr Salks back!!
Isn't the ability to prevent human suffering incentive enough?
How are cures to diseases profitable in this system? It’s more cost effective for a drug company to sell my insulin to me for the rest of my life than for them to sell a one time cure. I don’t see that as advancement for anything but their profit margins
I own a moon patent and I'm gonna patent Halley’s Comet soon too
Why does insulin cost so much in America ?
Mr. Salk graduated from my high school and became and extraordinary human me on the other hand imma be soem low class worker lmao :v
What I think they should do is require that only the cost of development + 50% is the highest amount they can sell it this way Company still make money and they can't overcharge people
A big difference is that the effort to conquer polio was mostly funded by the public, through donations and government grants.
1:22 Canadiens Win! Go Montreal :P
i envy him..
Ya cuz why would she company want to put out a drug to...idk...fucking just help people lol
To with hold life saving meds cation from pepole is a sin
"undo the positive influence of the bayh-dole act" girl people are dying because of the shitty system;;;;;;;;;;
Jonas salk=God
Lori Reilly should be tried and convicted for crimes against humanity
This is why we need communism
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Shout out my boy Shkreli
When you cut these can you stop screwing with aspect ratio of old footage? When you shove 4:3 to 16:9 everybody in the past looks fat and distorted or when you zoom in everything ends up claustrophobic.
This is a really sloppy editing choice people are making these days and it really needs to stop.
You are literally distorting the past.
ALurkingGrue Your complaining about aspect ratios?!?
Be grateful for such well researched news, that you get for free!
OR he/she is giving valuable feedback.
So they can't also respect old footage and show it how it was meant to be shown? They are so busy researching they can't present the past footage as it actually looked?
We can't have both? We can only have one or the other?
@@aleksanteri_r not a very valuable feedback, changing the aspect ratio of old footage to match with the HD ratio of the present interviews is not easy. It helps keep the authenticity of the old footage with the aspect ratio of the past.
Capitalism is what created America.
And what will destroy it.