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In the modern world, it's not ideal to create a drug to cure something.

The drug companies produce the drugs they can. They are nervous enough about having enough blockbusters in their upcoming pipeline that if they could make something that cures a given cancer, they would.

We've eaten the low-hanging fruit. If any of us went back in time a hundred years we could come up with a polio vaccine just by trying a few times to remember what we learned about it in grade school. Modern diseases that don't have a cure in a pill isn't because someone never thought of doing it; it's because it takes hundreds of scientists doing lots of long trials to find something that improves outcomes by 10%.




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