And stop giving me ideas. You’ll make me unhappily rich… But understand this: if you do, I’m leaving all my money to Sleipner and Justin. (And I expect birthday cards until then guys. :)

http://www.techreview.com/Nanotech/17956/

What do you say sleipner? Do you have 10 million dollars to set up a startup drug company?

Maybe you don’t, but there are thousands of venture capitalist and investment firms that do. Besides, if it so cheap and there is no patent, you probably don’t need that much anyway! Make it in your basement and sell it over the internet. There are a ton of quacks selling stuff that claims to cure cancer and all sorts of diseases, although DCA might actually work.

As of 2002, over 10 Miliion people in the united states alone are living with cancer. If you are selling a cure, it is guaranteed that all 10 million will buy it, otherwise they may die. Tell me that is not one hell of a market to get into!

Think about it, If one drug company breaks the mold and desides to sell it, then all other competing companies will lose profit on their cancer-treatment drugs because they wuld instantly become obsolete and no health care plan would buy them. It would be in the best interest of those companies to get on board with DCA.

Brian Lee, there is no way you can convince me that it would not be profitable to invest in such an endevour. It the cure for cancer for Christ’s sake. Its the holy grail of medicine! Again, why does it have to be a big pharma company that is required to manufacture and sell it? There is no patent on paper plates, but I can go to Wall-Mart and there are a ton of different brands selling them, with each one making a profit on every unit they sell.

You should get a brain. Better yet, you should get a chemistry set and some investors (perhaps from the paper plate company). You (as well as those investors) could make millions, and you wouldn’t have to worry about your unfortunate genetic dispostition.

Actually, guys, I did notice that the researchers at the University of Alberta are getting many offers of funding. Good start to things.

I personally am predisposed genetically to cancer, my doctor says, so I have a very selfish interest in not dying horribly while taking chemo or radiation therapy. So, if I’ve been rude, it is not personal.

All is good in the world gents.

Sorry guys.

By law and charter, a corporation and it’s executive body must put profit to ownership above all else. It is their sole duty. Anything else, like curing cancer, is superflous to business decisions.

It is at the heart of the modern corporation, and even Milton Friedman would back me on this statement. He has already, rest his soul. As would any first-year law or business student. Or CEO, if they like their jobs, and want to keep them.

This business model stands for any form of publicly-traded, limited-liabilty company. A privately owned company can, however, be more flexible, as it is the ownership itself who can make these decisions of putting people ahead of profit. But the privately owned company is severely limited in how it can raise venture capital, hence most go public.

So, in case you don’t ubderstand what all this means, I’ll tell you. You will not see these companies increasing the manufacture of this drug, for anything other than metabolic disorders, unless it is profitable to them.

And no amount of whining and obfuscation about “what does cavistat have to do with this” will change that.

Get a brain.

Justin could get together with sleipner and start their own production company.

What do you say sleipner? Do you have 10 million dollars to set up a startup drug company? I could do the marketing…

Why do existing companies need to make it if they dont want to? What the heck does cavistat have to do with this – Who is preventing anybody to produce or sell cavistat? How are drug companies “burying” this story if I just read it here? Is every oncologist in this country so shallow that they would kow-tow to drug companies and not reccomend the drug for their dying patients, if indeed the drug has been proven effective? What about other countries with socialist health care – why don’t they distribute DCA to their patients? Questions unaswered. Hmmmm….

I Agree that drug corporations will almost certainly do whatever they can to bury this, because of the billions they would lose in cancer drugs and treatments. Insurance companies, however, should do everything they can to promote it, as it would save them billions. Should be interesting to watch the clash of these titans.

Tell you what, Lewis. If I’m so ignorant, as you say, of business and corporate motivation, perhaps you’ll enlighten me, here, as to what they are, if not profit? Or are you just beating some meat?