ADHD memes

Nfi, mate

There is some truth to it, though. Big Pharma hates to develop vaccines because they aren't big money-makers. The most you have to take a vaccine is once a year, and many of them you only need to take once in your entire life. That's why the government has to dump a big pile of cash onto them whenever they need a vaccine. They would much rather put R&D into a pill that you have to take every day.

The USA capitalist system effectively worships money more than God. It's not a conspiracy theory so much as a not unwarranted suspicion about for-profit drug companies' likely motivations and priorities. The only thing potentially keeping that at bay is the threat of someone else disrupting their cash flow with an actual cure - although that doesn't prevent them from burying cures they find themselves unless it benefits them, or significantly disadvantages a major competitor.

I don't know about Canada but I'm in the other CA, and I know UCLA for instance actively partners with (gets a lot of funding from) pharmaceutical companies for their research projects.

Fred Banting did what was possible, even considered impossible, at the time. Today's question, how come we still haven't discovered a cure? Best we can do is a transplanted pancreas and kidney, if we can find a dead but healthy donor.