▲ 730 ▼ Malaria (fedia.io) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by jeena@jemmy.jeena.net to c/science_memes@mander.xyz 157 comments fedilink hide all child comments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLkbWUNQbgk&t=308s
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Citation needed. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bort@sopuli.xyz 19 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Civil society organizations active in poorer nations, including Doctors Without Borders, expressed discomfort with the notion that Western-dominated groups, staffed by elite teams of experts, would be helping guide life-and-death decisions affecting people in poorer nations. Those tensions only increased when the Gates Foundation opposed efforts to waive intellectual property rights, a move that critics saw as protecting the interests of pharmaceutical giants over people living poorer nations https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/14/global-covid-pandemic-response-bill-gates-partners-00053969 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yikes. Do you know what justification was given? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bort@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 years ago (2 children) i remember hearing, that their argument was, that a strong profit-incentive would motive the manufacturer to increase production as well as quality. I also remember that the debate around that topic was drowned out by some weirder theories. E.g. during that time q-anon was on the rise, and some people argued, that the gates foundation was using covid to implant microchips into people or something like that source: my memory from a couple years back permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Thanks. Sounds like the same ol "free market" argument then. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SporeAdic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* A not insignificant line of reasoning (though probably less important to people in power than the profit incentive) was also to keep the secrets of making the vaccine from bring revealed to other countries, which would apparently erode the USA's pharmaceutical research advantage. An interesting article about this from the former director of NIST is here but I don't necessarily agree with the reasoning. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bort@sopuli.xyz 19 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Civil society organizations active in poorer nations, including Doctors Without Borders, expressed discomfort with the notion that Western-dominated groups, staffed by elite teams of experts, would be helping guide life-and-death decisions affecting people in poorer nations. Those tensions only increased when the Gates Foundation opposed efforts to waive intellectual property rights, a move that critics saw as protecting the interests of pharmaceutical giants over people living poorer nations https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/14/global-covid-pandemic-response-bill-gates-partners-00053969 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yikes. Do you know what justification was given? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bort@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 years ago (2 children) i remember hearing, that their argument was, that a strong profit-incentive would motive the manufacturer to increase production as well as quality. I also remember that the debate around that topic was drowned out by some weirder theories. E.g. during that time q-anon was on the rise, and some people argued, that the gates foundation was using covid to implant microchips into people or something like that source: my memory from a couple years back permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Thanks. Sounds like the same ol "free market" argument then. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SporeAdic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* A not insignificant line of reasoning (though probably less important to people in power than the profit incentive) was also to keep the secrets of making the vaccine from bring revealed to other countries, which would apparently erode the USA's pharmaceutical research advantage. An interesting article about this from the former director of NIST is here but I don't necessarily agree with the reasoning. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yikes. Do you know what justification was given? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bort@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 years ago (2 children) i remember hearing, that their argument was, that a strong profit-incentive would motive the manufacturer to increase production as well as quality. I also remember that the debate around that topic was drowned out by some weirder theories. E.g. during that time q-anon was on the rise, and some people argued, that the gates foundation was using covid to implant microchips into people or something like that source: my memory from a couple years back permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Thanks. Sounds like the same ol "free market" argument then. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SporeAdic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* A not insignificant line of reasoning (though probably less important to people in power than the profit incentive) was also to keep the secrets of making the vaccine from bring revealed to other countries, which would apparently erode the USA's pharmaceutical research advantage. An interesting article about this from the former director of NIST is here but I don't necessarily agree with the reasoning. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bort@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 years ago (2 children) i remember hearing, that their argument was, that a strong profit-incentive would motive the manufacturer to increase production as well as quality. I also remember that the debate around that topic was drowned out by some weirder theories. E.g. during that time q-anon was on the rise, and some people argued, that the gates foundation was using covid to implant microchips into people or something like that source: my memory from a couple years back permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Thanks. Sounds like the same ol "free market" argument then. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SporeAdic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* A not insignificant line of reasoning (though probably less important to people in power than the profit incentive) was also to keep the secrets of making the vaccine from bring revealed to other countries, which would apparently erode the USA's pharmaceutical research advantage. An interesting article about this from the former director of NIST is here but I don't necessarily agree with the reasoning. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Thanks. Sounds like the same ol "free market" argument then. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SporeAdic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* A not insignificant line of reasoning (though probably less important to people in power than the profit incentive) was also to keep the secrets of making the vaccine from bring revealed to other countries, which would apparently erode the USA's pharmaceutical research advantage. An interesting article about this from the former director of NIST is here but I don't necessarily agree with the reasoning. permalink fedilink source parent
