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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:45:44 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
      
   > It's a good growth industry for Big Pharma, anyway.   
      
   As I see it, Big Pharma sells 3 kinds of products:   
      
   1) Cures for diseases   
   2) Disease preventives (vaccines etc)   
   3) Treatments for conditions that are not cures, but require ongoing   
      application for a lifetime   
      
   Which do you think is the most profitable for them? Clearly it’s 3),   
   particularly if the condition involved is one that primarily afflicts   
   affluent first-world patients. Those good old erectile dysfunction   
   pills, as well as these weight-loss ones, clearly fit into that   
   category.   
      
   Which is the *least* profitable? Obviously it’s 2). Something to think   
   about the next time somebody tries to convince you of some kind of   
   “vaccine conspiracy” ...   
      
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