In response to a comment to Anteros, above: According to some critics, the focus on AIDS in Africa was less humanitarian than a racket for huge federal grants to pay big Pharma to offload their stocks of dubious, harmful and experimental drugs, forbidden in the West due to their risks, to use on a pliant faraway population whose deaths t…
In response to a comment to Anteros, above: According to some critics, the focus on AIDS in Africa was less humanitarian than a racket for huge federal grants to pay big Pharma to offload their stocks of dubious, harmful and experimental drugs, forbidden in the West due to their risks, to use on a pliant faraway population whose deaths the West would not care about, and which no one would ever report on, since U.S. audiences famously have little interest in foreign affairs. The humanitarian industrial complex takes big percentages off the top. Fad science and squeaky wheels (lobbyists) cop nearly all of the funds. Meaning that real science winds up not being done, because the real scientists are the last in line to be paid. If David Brock is squeaking at an ARC conference in Paris, it’s only because his massive cuts from his networks of faux humanitarian cut-out operations, are being squeezed under Trump. We need much more auditing of where this money goes: apparently mostly to largely functionless and partisan intermediaries.
I don't disagree about the corruption, the drugs are no doubt exorbitantly priced and could be gotten from India for a fraction of what the American taxpayer is being charged.
In response to a comment to Anteros, above: According to some critics, the focus on AIDS in Africa was less humanitarian than a racket for huge federal grants to pay big Pharma to offload their stocks of dubious, harmful and experimental drugs, forbidden in the West due to their risks, to use on a pliant faraway population whose deaths the West would not care about, and which no one would ever report on, since U.S. audiences famously have little interest in foreign affairs. The humanitarian industrial complex takes big percentages off the top. Fad science and squeaky wheels (lobbyists) cop nearly all of the funds. Meaning that real science winds up not being done, because the real scientists are the last in line to be paid. If David Brock is squeaking at an ARC conference in Paris, it’s only because his massive cuts from his networks of faux humanitarian cut-out operations, are being squeezed under Trump. We need much more auditing of where this money goes: apparently mostly to largely functionless and partisan intermediaries.
I don't disagree about the corruption, the drugs are no doubt exorbitantly priced and could be gotten from India for a fraction of what the American taxpayer is being charged.