Bristol-Myers Squibb donation to AIDS research

[Gohron]

Are you kidding? A cure for something like that would be massive. Huge PR boosts, government grants out the ass, and they'd have a patent on the cure. The problem is that we don't even know how to cure a cold... viruses just elude us, for whatever reason, and that's what HIV and Hepatitis happen to be.

It's not a big conspiracy keeping us from finding cures to these diseases. We just have no idea how to cure them yet.

Well, I shouldn't say so much a cure but rather along the lines of an innoculation because as far as I know, there hasn't been a single reliable cure for ANY virus out there. Innoculations for AIDS would probably cost these companies tons of money in the long-run I would think.

AIDS is only really prominant outside the US though and the cases in the US are generally isolated in the poorer areas of the country (though there is exceptions of course, not saying safe sex isn't a good idea). My dad has Hepatitus C and went on new medication for it that completely fucked him up and possibly did permanant damage to his body but the company that put out the medication refused to disclose any information on possible side-effects of the medicine they put him on. Ultimately he chose to go off of it which means when his liver fails that he will die which unfortunately may not be that long from now.

[AstroBlue]

http://gamapserver.who.int/mapLibrar...(August06).png

[arjue]

Here's a similar thing, but about Child Pornography.

http://www.lightamillioncandles.com/

[Cheebs]

Here's a similar thing, but about Child Pornography.

http://www.lightamillioncandles.com/

Odd. The cat who made that website obviously knew what he was doing, but the very first page is LITTERED with JPEG compression artifacts. That image should have been a GIF or PNG. Hell, the font is so common it should have just been text and not an image at all. Odd. I'm not being sarcastic either. I'm puzzled.

[Cheebs]

http://gamapserver.who.int/mapLibrar...(August06).png

This always shocks me. Between 1 and 20 and 1 in 10 Americans have AIDS? Part of me is shocked, and part of me doesn't belive the statistic. One way or another, it means several people I know have AIDS and I don't know it, because I know a fucking lot of people.

[dakidski]

I like this whole cost-free charity trend. You get to feel good about yourself for doing 'the right thing' and it doesn't cost you a dollar.

[Gohron]

This always shocks me. Between 1 and 20 and 1 in 10 Americans have AIDS? Part of me is shocked, and part of me doesn't belive the statistic. One way or another, it means several people I know have AIDS and I don't know it, because I know a fucking lot of people.

Erm...it says 0.5% to 1%. That's between 1 in 200 and 1 in 100 :P

It's also fairly likely that you don't know anyone with AIDS as it's not a very widespread virus in this country anymore and is generally only really prevelant in very poor areas. I know a person whose had it for quite some time and didn't know it for a long time, he had two daughters and a wife and somehow none of them were infected.

[Drewbacca]

A really, really bad trip.

Spiders are the worst.

[Bojack]

I know a person whose had it for quite some time and didn't know it for a long time, he had two daughters and a wife and somehow none of them were infected.

You know Magic Johnson?

[Razor Ramon]

What do you call Magic Johnson on rollerblades? Rolaids olololol

As far as these companies making profit goes, welcome to capitalism!