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Just who or what is this animal called "government"? I always believed that it was all of us, you and me and the guy next door. Do government and researchers have a covert agenda to profit from the treatment of disease? Do they plan to prey on the suffering of others for profit? I don't believe so. Yes, profit is a powerful motivator, but so is recognition and a place in history. Jonas Salk, Louis Pasteur, and Alexander Fleming could have all made millions by not divulging their discoveries. Salk could have sold leg braces and iron lungs. Pasteur could have sold some potion for bacterial ailments due to drinking unpasteurized milk. Fleming could have hidden his discovery of penicillin and let infection prevail. None of them did. Whatever happened to small pox, measles, whooping cough, typhus, bubonic plague, tetanus, cholera, tuberculosis, and spotted fever? Why develop and distribute any vaccine if your intent is to profit on treating it? I believe if PD is cured it will be first announced by a private company, or possibly a university. However, I won't reject the government's findings if they beat them to it. I hope this makes sense. I found myself getting a little too serious. Gregr 47/35/35