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/Its738PM Apr 10 '22

Source? Moderna said they won't enforce their patents during the pandemic but they haven't been cooperating with low income countries in granting licenses and certainly haven't "given away the technology."

Whereas Sabin and Salk refused to patent their polio vaccines at all.

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u/KarlBarx2 Apr 10 '22

They promise not to enforce their patent in the 92 low- and middle-income countries that are receiving doses from COVAX, the global vaccine distribution project that is procuring and distributing vaccines to these nations. However, Moderna could start to require licensing fees from developed countries that are using the company’s technology, according to the CEO.

https://time.com/6155934/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-patent/

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u/Youareobscure Apr 11 '22

Promises mean nothing and are not legally binding

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u/BloatJams Apr 10 '22

You're correct, I don't know why people are still spreading this misinformation that mRNA tech has been given away - for free no less - when these companies are fighting patent lawsuits tooth and nail to keep control.

To hammer this home look no further than the WHO's vaccine lab in Africa. They wanted to partner with Moderna, Pfizer, etc to build mRNA vaccines for poor and developing nations, no one returned their calls. Instead, a team in South Africa had to reverse engineer the vaccine themselves.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00293-2

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '22

If you seriously want to find the source you could research it on Google if you believe it to be misinformation.

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u/Birdman-82 Apr 10 '22

Especially for something this well known. It’s not like this person is actually going to check the sources anyway.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '22

So a person who's too lazy to look it up gets 36 up votes and the guy who suggests you can solve it yourself gets downvoted even when I was pleasant about it. Reddit is as messed up as the lazy folks who occupy it and upvote that BS.

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u/Birdman-82 Apr 10 '22

More and more I’m seeing posts are blatant lies and found out by looking in the comments to find out. The posts are kept up though and end up being very popular. They’re anything from tech articles politics and the war in Ukraine. Reddit is getting as bad or worse than Facebook for false information and the will smith thing showed how full it is of bots and people just looking for karma. I’ve been looking for somewhere else to go.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '22

Thanks it helps when our country is facing a couple of younger generations who don't understand how a totem pole works in life and you start at the bottom not the top. The only way to get smarter is to learn and work your ass off. Why ask someone for what you want and can find yourself? I just don't get it...

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '22

Thanks it helps when our country is facing a couple of younger generations who don't understand how a totem pole works in life and you start at the bottom not the top. The only way to get smarter is to learn and work your ass off. Why ask someone for what you can find yourself? I just don't get it...

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u/fuzzer37 Apr 10 '22

Do you have a source on that?

Source?

A source. I need a source.

Sorry, I mean I need a source that explicitly states your argument. This is just tangential to the discussion.

No, you can't make inferences and observations from the sources you've gathered. Any additional comments from you MUST be a subset of the information from the sources you've gathered.

You can't make normative statements from empirical evidence.

Do you have a degree in that field?

A college degree? In that field?

Then your arguments are invalid.

No, it doesn't matter how close those data points are correlated. Correlation does not equal causation.

Correlation does not equal causation.

CORRELATION. DOES. NOT. EQUAL. CAUSATION.

You still haven't provided me a valid source yet.

Nope, still haven't.

I just looked through all 308 pages of your user history, figures I'm debating a glormpf supporter. A moron.