David Agus: A new strategy in the war against cancer

http://www.ted.com Traditionally, David Agus explains, cancer treatments have had a short-sighted focus on the offending individual cells. He suggests a new, cross-disciplinary approach, using atypical drugs, computer modeling and protein analysis to treat and analyze the whole body.

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[AutodidacticPhd]

"...no company wants to invest on the testing since they wouldn't be able to get any profits from it. "

Which is exactly why running medicine as a free market enterprise is wasteful, inefficient and just plain stupid. You get a medical culture that produces 6 different ways to give rich old men erections and no research into common disease and health.

[IH8WRONGPPL]

lol, maybe, if you smoke enough of it, you can believe anything is possible.

[slickvguy]

Remarkable. Very pleased that people like this are doing what they do. We need more people like him and far more resources (used effectively).

[saturnianspire]

He's a gifted speaker, very enlightening!

[clevername333]

how about hemp oil?  Anecdotal evidence is pointing towards a possible cure. I would love to get a skeptical opinion on this, and perhaps links to a study. Perhaps canibinoids have a high anti androgen component?

google rick Simpson phoenix tears

[Mishkafofer]

@AutodidacticPhd I can even take this argument to the next level. Imagine the board of directors decides to save human kind from AIDS and throw all companies resources on that research. I as a stock owner can sue the company board for violating company's official and agreeable goals of maximizing stock owner wealth and spending it on some vague or over ambitious goals and any court will agree with me.

[Mishkafofer]

@AutodidacticPhd I personally believe that the consequence of under-development in certain medical fields is a personal decision on micro level but on macro level you start to wonder, is there any connection or central coordination? I believe and i think that you agree that the basic desire to make money by making the most profitable drugs (hair loss, libido encroachment) probably purses better the official goal of any commercial firm and that making money.

[AutodidacticPhd]

@Mishkafofer And Game Theory does a brilliant job of explaining all the problems in current medical research. It is most rewarding to research drugs that treat problems that are common in populations rich enough to pay for them. It is not beneficial to tackle problems that are rare, or that are more common amongst the poor. It is also preferable to make sure there is as little independent oversight and research as possible.

[Mishkafofer]

@AutodidacticPhd OPEC which is Oil cartel does enforce quotas but its fails to do it efficiently and there is a dark trade of Oil. Another more powerful point is the Indian Pharmaceutical industry that violates US drug patents openly. So Indian Drug companies are openly challenging US Drug companies and presumably that secret agreement that they created, but there's an interesting point, Indian companies copy only existing drugs and not releasing new ones. The question is why?

[Mishkafofer]

@AutodidacticPhd By the way one interesting lady from Italy did a presentation on TED about Economics of Terror, so maybe your point was scrutinized and checked by serious people.

From what i remember from Game Theory, there is a basic rule: A player will always do a move if its rewards him. Let's presume that All pharmaceuticals companies agreed to stop certain research and drugs, this de-facto cartel agreement that demands strong supervision without visible legal enforcement.