[Symmetry]

"Medicine" is not a singular entity sitting in a dark lair cackling to itself, its a wide variety of people and institutions that all have their own ideals and motives. Most are in it for the money, but to a somewhat lesser degree than in other industries.

What thinking of "Medicine" as a singular entity blinds you to is that while not curing people might result in more money for medicine as a whole, a cure for cancer would certainly make a whole lot of money or whatever entity came up with it. They'd have to choose the good of their industry over their own good and the good of their patients to a degree I would find incredible to do otherwise.

[krollew]

Yeah, I know that there are many institutions and people. But those people create a whole system. And I guess there are not so much players in that market that can develop such cure without any help. Research itself is expencive and nobody can just state he created cure for cancer and let people test it. They need much money to make it legal medicine. Can you tell me how much people/institution has enough resources to do that?

Moreover I guess medicine is quite homogenous as a science. What if way they are looking for that cure is simply wrong? What if law specifies wrong ways of testing drugs? Is it easy to change the law? If way of looking is wrong, I guess it's extremely hard to get money for research since people who decide rather trust the science. If law don't let find cure, I think it's even more difficult.