Possible Breakthrough for AIDS Cure

kryonD writes "Researchers believe they have found a new compound that could finally kill the HIV/AIDS virus, not just slow it down as current treatments do. While most of the community is still hesitant to comment on this until it passes peer review, initial results show that their method attacks and kills ALL variations of the virus. A fast track through the FDA could have one of the world's leading problems licked in less than a decade."

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nooooo

[Anonymous Coward]

www.igotbeaten.com

Re:Don't do it

[kaffiene]

fuckwit AC's like you, I spose

Re:Raised eyebrows

[geddes]

I have said it before and I will say it again. Don't be so quick to discredit cold fusion. The problem with Cold Fusion was that two competing teams rushed each other to be the first to release the results to the press. When other universities tried to reproduce the results, they were all observed excess heat being generated, just in inconsistent quantities. MIT even saw positive results, they just covered it up. The original CF researchers hadn't had time to look into or explain these inconsistencies.

It would be such a shame if every time a potential scientific preview got covered in the media before the scientific review process (as the media tends to do) it was axed. How much potential good would be lost?

Re:but...

[JeffSh]

meh, i have enough karma to last me until the second coming!

Re:Drug overuse

[RoadDoggFL]

If smallpox is eradicated, then why am I going to have to get a vaccine before going to Korea?

Re:Raised eyebrows

[diersing]

I find it more likely Bush would introduce the scientist to some oil buddies who'd like to hedge their bets in case this whole "hybrid" car thing takes off. With Exxon and Shell owning the "new big thing" their corporate profits margins are assured.

Exxon and Shell then slow the manufacturing of the wonder drug so it may be priced at a premium for the "open" markets to determine a price high enough to continue their influence over the political process.

I've seen it once, I've seen it a thousand times...he says shaking his head and walking away.

Re:Raised eyebrows

[diersing]

Check my profile before making any assumption. Read what I post, son.

Re:Raised eyebrows

[drsmithy]

You forgot option 3:

Thanks to the miracle of "Intellectual Property", it could be both fast and cheap to manufacture _and_ demand can exceed artificially restricted supply, making it "expensive as hell" (and highly profitable) !

Re:Raised eyebrows

[j-cloth]

All scepticism on the discovery aside, are you suggesting that anyone consider not making something like this widely available when the monetary cost would likely be less than 3 days in Iraq?

+1?

[autopr0n]

It's odd that this comment was modded down as "overrated", it looks like someone whent through my history and dumped all their negative mod points on me. Not that I'm worried, in the past 24 comments I've been modded up 8 times, I'm just pointing out how lame whoever's doing it is.