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Originally Posted by HarryT
Without patent protection, there would be no new drugs.
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That would be wonderful! Pharmaceutical drugs are responsible for destroying the health of so many people and wrecking the economy in the process.
They take a natural substance that has been proven to be helpful in actually healing a condition, but they can't patent a natural substance. Instead they create an artificial version so they can patent it and make tons of money, ignoring all the negative side effects. Then they spend their ill-gotten gains trying to stamp out effective natural alternatives.
In the US, the pharmaceutical companies, with their billions in revenue, control the FDA. They get dangerous drugs approved all the time and basically bribe doctors into pushing them on their patients.
I see so many people whose health has been completely ruined by pharmaceutical drugs.
"Here, take this for your symptom"... and then you end up with several side effects and prescriptions for those too over time. The majority of people in the US take a ridiculous amount of prescription drugs every day, and none of them actually heal the cause of their original problems.
Pharmaceutical drugs are even turning up in our water systems now.
So add me to the list of anti-patent people. If getting rid of the patent system helps to stop greedy and evil Big-Pharma... then I am all for it!