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The Proposed WHO R&D Treaty

Started by TLF · 10 months ago

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Don Marti
1 year ago

Another good "think tank" name: International Policy Network. Why do lazy editors run these flacks' op-ed pieces without at least mentioning who they're really working for in the author blurb? (The IT media has the same problem, plus marketing "analysts".)

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MikeT
1 year ago

What happens when they are not far off from the truth, Don? There are many people, especially those in the developing countries, that would love to see a socialist system develop for medical intellectual property. That should be vigorously opposed, as it has been the free market, not governments directing research and development, that has lead to the creation of the medical advances we have today.

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