[lotsofpulp]

>Imagine a medicine can be made from simple ingredients, but you discovered a recipe by accident. It's very valuable since it might save lives, so the value is high, the cost is low and you can reap the benefit on the mere basis that you discovered something by accident. You also need to make sure that no one "gets it", so do not educate people, just milk them - and in the worst case, mislead them, work against any threat "knowledge" would pose.

Except that's not the world we live in. Effective medicines take billions of dollars, years of time from very smart people who have the option of choosing other careers, and still have an extremely high chance of failure. Imagining a world where all of that happens via charity is pointless.