Is it not time to target, laser-like, the major problems that throw a shadow across the threshold of all scientific, medical, and agricultural research and development?
How do we stop the patenting of organisms? How do we put caps on the absurdly high fees the FDA requires for clinical trials, effectively ousting anyone but the giants? How do we put caps on the profit margins of drugs and medical services? How do we disallow the insurance industry to effectively practice medicine without a license? How do we turn a posse of industries that should by their nature be not-for-profit away from the scandalously usurious scheme they've invented themselves around?
I believe an important step towards effective science and medical research is to rescind the permission to patent organisms. I'd like to see them all retroactively rescinded.
What we are seeing now, and have seen increasingly since 1980, is a direct result of this scrambling for ownership of things that should not be owned by anybody.
I haven't a clue how to even begin such a thing. Maybe someone here does.
How do we stop the patenting of organisms? How do we put caps on the absurdly high fees the FDA requires for clinical trials, effectively ousting anyone but the giants? How do we put caps on the profit margins of drugs and medical services? How do we disallow the insurance industry to effectively practice medicine without a license? How do we turn a posse of industries that should by their nature be not-for-profit away from the scandalously usurious scheme they've invented themselves around?
I believe an important step towards effective science and medical research is to rescind the permission to patent organisms. I'd like to see them all retroactively rescinded.
What we are seeing now, and have seen increasingly since 1980, is a direct result of this scrambling for ownership of things that should not be owned by anybody.
I haven't a clue how to even begin such a thing. Maybe someone here does.