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by anon2775 2776 days ago
If it works but it's not economically-viable: the moral and ethical choice is to open-source it or give it to a non-profit medical foundation. It sucks to have a rare disease because there isn't enough profit to recoup r&d; this is where non-profits, NGOs and GSEs should advance medicine where big pharma trades lives for profits.