A man died yesterday
A man died yesterday. From an illness there is no cure.
This must be a reminder that:
- we spend more money in developing new weapons and waging wars than on searching for new drugs to cure diseases that have plagued humankind forever,
- we spend more money in creating derivatives markets than on global programs to eradicate easily and cheaply curable diseases,
- we spend more money on advertising pet food than on R&D for paediatric drugs.
The list could go on for pages.
In France, we have a candidate for the next presidential election that is only there in order to testify that despite all political commitments over the years, public research on cancer is nowhere because it lacks basic funding. And he knows what he is talking about, being one of the most famous researcher in the field.
Humankind has a set of priorities that has been established 20,000 years ago by the first humanoid hunters. May be we should consider changing it now.
This is the kind of goal I’m sure the man that died yesterday could have agreed on.
