Companies like Eli Lilly, Merck, GSK, Bristol-Meyers Squibb cause and perpetuate massive amounts of human suffering. I view them on the same level as Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. Input?

  • JohnBrownsBussy2 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Because it has a well understood oncogenesis, because immunotherapy and selective therapy drugs tend to work well against Melanomas, and because since it’s localized in peripheral tissues it’s easy to access and model?

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        All cancer treatments disproportionately benefit white people, as they can disproportionately afford them and disproportionately have better access to diagnostic tests. It actually wouldn’t be sufficient to explain the difference in why melanoma treatments are more developed.