Quote Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
That's crap. Scientists feed on peer recognition and nothing else. There may well be some cynical researchers somewhere who simply stall for dollars, but I've worked with scientists for my entire life, and the vast majority take relatively low paying jobs because they want one thing and one thing only: Recognition stemming from original results.
I completely disagree with this.

Chris Rock said it best, "Ain't no money in the cure". BILLIONS of dollars are given for cancer research each year, yet we still depend on old methods such as chemotherapy for treatment.

While it may be true that some scientist genuinely want to find a cure, I say most of them are full of it. Then you have the drug companies, which I feel are the biggest parasites of the medical "industry", making a bunch of drugs that don't cure anything, much less cancer.

I believe that even if there was a definitive cure, the price would be so high that only the wealthy could afford it. Since they wouldn't be bringing in billions for "research", they'd have to make as much as they could off the cure.