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Re: Canadians to start HIV vaccine clinical trials

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I don't think you need to be so antagonistic against the funders. Not to mention that there are different awards for different things. I think it would be perfectly fine (and that all the members involved would agree) if the researchers were given the Nobel prize in Biology and the funders the Peace prize.

That would be a great compromise -- an HIV vaccine would probably do more for world peace than at least half of the winners of that prize to date. Another option would be to name the actual vaccine after the funder.

I would argue that a cheap, environmentally clean and viable energy source would do more for world peace than all the Nobel peace prize winners combined. Dependency on oil must be the single largest threat, except maybe nuclear arms, to international stability. And I make that statement without accepting/rejecting the hypothesis that a lot of wars in the past were motivated by Oil supplies.

Re: Canadians to start HIV vaccine clinical trials

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That's the cynical reason. The non cynical reason is that subjects in the US often take or have taken various other drugs. Depending on what they are checking those drugs may affect the results.

Making it cheaper (and thus allowing more drugs to be tested, or to allow inventors to raise less money and thus keep more equity ownership, thus being better able to develop future drugs) isn't really cynical either, IMO. I want pharma companies to make huge profits. I just want them to create vastly more surplus value for society in the process, vs. live via regulatory capture. If I could pay Novartis $10k/yr to be…

I really hope you aren't railing MDMA and shrooms...
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