Health Research In Peril, Canadians Warned

It seems to me that our entire system has gone amok. Low cost drugs to fight things like cancer are not being developed because there is not enough profit for corporate testing and development. Yet politicians, such as Stephane Dion, is out there telling universities that government funding for research must be based on marketable products.

What ever happened to government promoting the "common good" rather than corporate profits?

"What ever happened to government promoting the "common good" rather than corporate profits?<br />
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that concept never made it off the funny papers.<br />
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IF, yeah that word, the common good existed <br />
the commoner would be clothed fed and sheltered<br />
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<a href="http://www.moraldilemma.observationdeck.org/?p=80">http://www.moraldilemma.observationdeck.org/?p=80</a><br />
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Until the concept of the common good replaces individual rights as the conventional moral currency, selfishness and a net deterioration in our mental well-being will continue to be the hallmark of our generation.<br />
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from wiki<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_good">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_good</a><p>---<br> [juris ignorantia est cum jus nostrum ignoramus]<br />
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it is ignorance of the law when we do not know our own rights" <br />
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lex ferenda

<blockquote> Until the concept of the common good replaces individual rights as the conventional moral currency </blockquote> I think we (they) only pay lipservice to "individual rights", and if the governments of the day actually endorsed these rights, the common good would be served by default. <p> But I fear that the <b>Max Headroom</b> theme is proving to be more prophetic than we gave it credit for 20 years ago</p> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092402/ <p>---<br>"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." <br />
-Max Planck<br />
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