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Pfizer Super Bowl commercial (youtu.be)

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– lgbtqwtfbbq 34 points 322 days ago +34 / -0

Even if Pfizer was capable of curing cancer they'd rather sell you a pill to treat it you'd have to take every day for the rest of your life.

And then if there were certain behaviors that made it more likely you'd get cancer they'd tell you not to worry about that, because cancer is "treatable".

Basically look at how they treat HIV and AIDS and apply that to all of human health, and you'll have a pretty good idea of Pfizer's ideal model for medical "treatment"

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– BetterNameUnfound 14 points 322 days ago +14 / -0

Even if Pfizer was capable of curing cancer they'd rather sell you a pill to treat it you'd have to take every day for the rest of your life.

Predictive programming: That's almost exactly what Lex Luthor did in the animated Superman: Doomsday.

Lex Luthor: Get this to Biochem, hand-carry only. Keep it off the interlink.

Mercy Graves: I know the drill, Lex. What is it, the cure for cancer?

Lex: Muscular dystrophy. I can cure every known case with a simple inoculation. Have Swan find a way to slow it to a crawl. Turn it into a lifetime treatment program. Right now, it's a mere $300-billion windfall.

Graves: And you need it to be a perennial, got it. But Swan's working the AIDS thing.

Lex: Oh, right. What about Schaffenberger?

Graves: Bird flu.

Lex: Hmmm... (puts away the cure) Guess "Jerry's Kids" will have to wait their turn.

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