Re: Shot down again: alternatives

[joan carol urquhart <jcu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Research is happening in universities too.
Its too bad that the larger American universities
are avidly seeking research funding from corporate America,
who buy the right to dictate the kind of university research they want to
fund,
depending on its marketability and potential for patents.
Research is a business.
You can read a great article in Atlantic Monthly on-line
to explain how larger universities like Berkley
have been establishing corporate funding in this way.


But smaller American universities and non-American university systems
that remain  publically subsidized (as in Canada)
still have some academic freedom to conduct pure research.
Perhaps Parkinson's Research conducted in smaller university research
centres
may offer us some hope as well for cures and better treatments.
What we should question
is the patenting and copyrighting laws for research findings.

Joan

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacob M. Drollinger <Jdroli7063@xxxxxxx>
To: PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, July 28, 2001 2:18 PM
Subject: Shot down again


Dear friends,

The pharmacueicals industry and the medical establishment has once again
shot
down a potentially promising treatment by labeling it "ineffective." NIL-A,
the first (and probably last) neuroimmunophilin drug has, it seems, gone the
same route as GDNF and fetal tissue implants. "No conclusive evidence to say
it improves P.D. symptoms" is what they say. When the truth of the matter
is,
the people responsible for the findings, i.e. the medical and drug
community,
have too much at stake.
Think about it for a minute: why would an industry, supported by over a
million people (the numbers as you know are growing daily), all of a sudden
offer them a cure, thereby cutting off their means of income, which is
pretty
substancial.
Stem cells will be next, I am sure. If there is no possible way to prove
them
ineffective, I am sure that research and possible treatment will be
outlawed.
Call me a pessimist, but do you like apples?
I call it a conspiracy.
How do you like them apples?

Jacob

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