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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: 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.