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Charlie, I see no conspiracy in regards to palliations versus a cure. I see a person who will lose his job if a cure is found, and just because (s)he is resistant to change will resist efforts to find a cure. I see a product manager who wants to be promoted, but his (her) product line is potentially in decline. I see a company president who has just invested $500,000,000 of his (her) company's money in a palliation and the company hasn't recouped their investment yet. I see company comptroller with an income stream of millions of dollars per year, and (s)he realizes that they about to lose that income. These people don't have to conspire. Change is perceived as their enemy. Going slow on a cure is good for them. Until they have a personal reason, the cure can take its time - and its toll among others. It is the sum of the human nature of many thousands of people. It may not be a conspiracy, but it certainly could look like one. Change is perceived as our ally. Going fast on a cure is what we need. We have to continue to work together. It is the sum of the needs of many thousands of us PWP's. Do we have a conspiracy to speed the cure? Perhaps we should. Perhaps we do. Art At 10:58 AM 1/7/00 , you wrote: > > Greg and Art, > > A cure is certainly more difficult to find than a palliation. Art I think > you are falling prey to the conspiratorial thinkers who look at all of the > world is driven purely by economics. Drug companies and the research and > medical communities are people too subject to the same illnesses all people > are subject to. > > But then maybe I'm wrong and my colleagues have been holding out on me. Or > maybe I have you all duped and I really have the cure and am not sharing the > cure with the rest of you. When you get into thinking conspiratorially where > does it stop? > > No, there is no major conspiracy IMHO by the "Band-Aide" manufacturers, any > more than there was a significant effort of the makers of braces crutches and > hot packs to prevent the development of the polio vaccine- just a normal rate > of progress toward a greater understanding of the illness which will > eventually lead toward a cure and prevention. > > Charlie > > Charles T. Meyer, M.D. > Middleton(Madison) WI > <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] >