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The ABC news website (an Australian national news service funded by the Australian government) reports on a group of high school students from Sydney Australia who have managed to recreate the active ingredient in Daraprim for a mere $20.
Daraprim has received a lot of coverage recently after Turing Pharmaceuticals who owns the patent, initially raised the price of the drug from $13.50 to $750.00, though they have since stated that the price will be reduced.
From the article:
For $US20, a group of high school students has created 3.7 grams of an active ingredient used in the medicine Daraprim, which would sell in the United States for between $US35,000 and $US110,000.
Pyrimethamine, the active ingredient in Daraprim, treats a parasitic infection in people with weak immune systems such as pregnant women and HIV patients.
In August 2015, the price of Daraprim in the US rose from $US13.50 per tablet to $US750 when Turing Pharmaceuticals, and its controversial then-chief executive Martin Shkreli, acquired the drug's exclusive rights and hiked up the price.
Since then, the 17-year-olds from Sydney Grammar have worked in their school laboratory to create the drug cheaply in order to draw attention to its inflated price overseas, which student Milan Leonard said was "ridiculous".
(Score: 2, Touché) by khallow on Thursday December 01 2016, @07:50PM
It [racism] absolutely does exist, it's making a big comeback, and overuse of the term until people don't fear it anymore is a part of why.
And your witty reply:
All those words and you didn't say anything remotely true.
So the claim "racism absolutely does exist" is not remotely true? The claim "racism is making a big comeback" is not remotely true? And the claim that "overuse of the term, "racism" until people don't fear it anymore is a part of why" is also not remotely true?
So Arik's assertion that "Racism is stupid and inefficient and actively harmful" is not remotely true? Arik's expressed desire to "I want it to die for good." is not remotely true? Arik's saga of asking for examples of Trump's racism? Not remotely true? Arik's claim that he was eventually told "He's against the EPA and he wants to build a wall" is not remotely true?
You might see where I'm going with this. Surely, you aspire to be more than the SN village idiot.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday December 01 2016, @07:57PM
Don't worry. Your job is safe.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Thursday December 01 2016, @08:02PM
Look, all your telling me is that racists need to bleed in the street before they learn that other people's lives aren't their playthings.
I'm totally down with that. Bash the fash.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Thursday December 01 2016, @10:51PM
You're being purposely obtuse, here. I know you're doing it on purpose because you're bright and can't be doing it by mistake. Please take a breath and bring back your A game. The world has entered a period of upheaval whose outcome none of us knows, and none of us can afford to parrot rote gibberish like dullards. If any of us want to demand others reason, then we have to demand it of ourselves, first.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Thursday December 01 2016, @10:55PM
The incredible fascist and xenophobic attitudes on display in the world right now are the future's biggest issue, period. I've been struggling with just what costs need to be paid for it to stop. And I'm absolutely not joking when I say that the ideas at Donald Trump's core base are approaching the point of requiring actual violence to resolve.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday December 02 2016, @01:12AM
I've been struggling with just what costs need to be paid for it to stop.
For starters, stop being part of the problem. Having a double standard where your bigotry is good and mine isn't, just encourages more of it.
And I'm absolutely not joking when I say that the ideas at Donald Trump's core base are approaching the point of requiring actual violence to resolve.
Sorry, but I think you're nuts if you think violence is going to fix anything. I think a huge part of the problem is that you and whoever you can get on your side wouldn't be any good at it just like you aren't any good at understanding other points of view or arguing your own point of view. In order for violence to work to your favor, your side needs to be better at it through some combination of power, competence, numbers, intel, etc. As Sun Tzu wrote:
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
And in a democracy, if you're already winning, you usually don't need to "go to war". My view here is that a huge part of the problem is a large population of people have formed who simply don't understand other people and other belief systems. This even manifests at leadership levels. For example, we have the following three infamous examples (Trump, Obama, and Clinton):
When do we beat Mexico at the border? They're laughing at us, at our stupidity. And now they are beating us economically. They are not our friend, believe me. But they're killing us economically.
The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems.
When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.
And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
I know there are only 60 days left to make our case–and don’t get complacent, don’t see the latest outrageous, offensive, inappropriate comment and think well he’s done now. We are living in a volatile political environment.
You know, just to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. They’re racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people – now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric.
Now some of these folks, they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.
Notice how the people (Obama and Clinton) supposedly on the side of rationality have just as much trouble as Trump does in dealing with out-groups. The problems of bigotry are very widespread and openly practiced.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday December 02 2016, @01:39PM
Then you're going to lose badly because you're not discerning the real reasons for their revolt. There are some Trump supporters who believe he's the second coming of white Jesus; they think the Klan has "a lot of good ideas" and have pondered moving themselves to the American Redoubt (as a Montanan I despise that). They are the minority. Glossing them to encompass the whole, as you have been, is quite mistaken.
Most of those who support Trump because of what he has said about immigration see it as an economic and perhaps cultural issue, not a racial one. Immigrants take jobs many Americans have relied upon. This argument is as old as the hills in the United States, and has never been untrue. The cultural component of that concern can be further defined not as a hatred of Chinese food or more burrito stands, but the structural malaise that plagues third world nations with their culture of graft, corruption, and lassitude. Again, glossing that as nothing more than base racism is incorrect, and proceeding from such an incorrect assessment will lead you into grievous error and failure.
Me, I think his victory was a shot across the bow of the elites. So far, based on his cabinet picks, it appears that Trump himself does not understand that. He will learn it the hard way.
But for him and the rest of the elites to learn it the hard way, a precondition of teaching it to them is to not labor under false dichotomies that have divided you and us from our natural allies, each other. As an exercise, read Huffington Post and Drudge side by side for a month. Excise the stupid labels, "left," "right," "communist," "racist," "fascist," "liberal," "conservative," from what you're reading and you'll see that both sides are pretty much talking about the same issues, in the same way. In other words, look for the commonalities instead of the differences and you'll be amazed that the ill-intentioned have been able to bring such a great country to its knees with such trivialities.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Friday December 02 2016, @04:15PM
I accept what you're trying to say is sincerely intended and reflects what you personally believe is true.
It is nonetheless the case that bigotry lies at the center of his core support in spite of your beliefs. That sounds like an argument from assertion, but I really don't feel like going on to construct that case that white nationalists both drove and deeply aligned with his platform for the hundredth time; the election is over.