[nathanvanfleet]

Not so sure why you landed on the "don't bother curing AIDs" argument but ok. I think that ultimately what you are saying is "if there is no profit motive guiding research we won't know what to spend money on." My answer to that is to allocate money for research based on the impact of the solution. So ultimately how many people are affected or how seriously people are effected, and not how much money you might be able to make. We currently have problems with drug companies not even making life-saving drugs that exist already because there are only a handful of people suffering from those particular diseases.

[droffel]

I wasn't intending to single out a particular condition, just labelled a few large-scale areas of active research and development.