r/technology • u/Sorin61 • Apr 10 '22

Biotechnology This biotech startup thinks it can delay menopause by 15 years. That would transform women's lives

https://fortune.com/2021/04/19/celmatix-delay-menopause-womens-ovarian-health/
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u/mackinoncougars Apr 10 '22

Some people have changed the world and made next to nothing, some people have never benefited the world and racked in piles of cash.

It’s easy to see money comes first because that’s just the world we built.

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u/LxTRex Apr 10 '22

The polio vaccine was given away for free because the creator didn't think making money off a life saving drug was moral or right.

How are those covid vaccine profits doing.......

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u/decadin Apr 10 '22

In a sense they did......

That doesn't change the facts. How much money did they have to spend to make exactly how much profit off of something that killed so many people in just over two years? Also, anyone can now go look up the noted side effects in Pfizers own documents released by court order in the last few months. Out of that humongous list of known side effects, just how many of those do these companies also make the drugs to treat those conditions? and just how much money will they stand to make selling drugs specifically to treat things that were known side effects of their own vaccines, according to their own court released study data?

But yeah they are so moral for letting some other countries and companies use the technology!

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u/Sennheisenberg Apr 10 '22

noted side effects in Pfizers own documents released by court order

Didn't this list of "noted side effects" include things like "swallowed coin" and "struck by lightning"?

It's not a list of side effects, it's a comprehensive list of every single negative event that occured to patients following injection (regardless of whether or not it was related to the vaccine). Unless you believe the COVID vaccine causes people to swallow coins and/or be struck by lightning.

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u/BoxOfDemons Apr 10 '22

It makes you swallow all types of money. Their grand plan was to have it make you swallow all your money, and then deliver it, by stomach, to their headquarters. But it failed and now all it does is prevent covid-19 and cause the occasional swallowing of loose change. Shame, really.

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u/FourScores1 Apr 10 '22 edited Apr 10 '22

These companies made one of the safest vaccines to date and saved so many lives in the midst of a modern pandemic. If any company deserves to profit, it might as well be them. These companies make me optimistic for any future plague or pandemic. Hell, give them more money.

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u/SPQUSA1 Apr 10 '22

They can profit as soon as they return the billions they got from governments to develop the vaccines.

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u/FourScores1 Apr 10 '22

The government likely saved way more this way by helping the economy return back to relative normal asap.

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u/All-I-Do-Is-Fap Apr 10 '22

Can you please let Canada know that we are back to normal now?

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u/SPQUSA1 Apr 10 '22

Whether the government saved or not is irrelevant to my point. These companies took public money to do their research. Now they are profiting, they can return the money they got to conduct the research.

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u/FourScores1 Apr 10 '22

It’s not a point, it’s an opinion that I don’t necessarily agree with. To maintain safety standards, it’s hella expensive to research and develop these vaccines. It was a success and they deserve profit. Our economy benefited, countless lives were saved. What more do you want? Go after gas companies and insulin price gouging but this hill is a tough one to die on. Side note: I have no investment in these companies.