2011-05-17, 12:12 PM
To immediately invoke the negative of what I said is obviously wrong.
Do you know how many drugs and treatments go through clinical trials and fail? Take any one of them and wave a wand and there you have a report that's not too far off from this. What's the point of the hype? Who said that nobody would bother to fund it? This is a different case from DCA, where it's a non-patentable compound. iPS cells are a whole different story, one with lots of hope and lots of media publicity but rare few articles are ever unbiased/tells people enough what they should know/doesn't contain misleading information/all of the above.
There is absolutely no difference in giving a trial drug media publicity and keeping it behind closed doors - failure and success is independent of such hype. Unless you're talking about politics and/or religion [ethics is a different story], which we really frown on.
Hadriel
Do you know how many drugs and treatments go through clinical trials and fail? Take any one of them and wave a wand and there you have a report that's not too far off from this. What's the point of the hype? Who said that nobody would bother to fund it? This is a different case from DCA, where it's a non-patentable compound. iPS cells are a whole different story, one with lots of hope and lots of media publicity but rare few articles are ever unbiased/tells people enough what they should know/doesn't contain misleading information/all of the above.
There is absolutely no difference in giving a trial drug media publicity and keeping it behind closed doors - failure and success is independent of such hype. Unless you're talking about politics and/or religion [ethics is a different story], which we really frown on.
Hadriel