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This sounds exactly like every quack scam out there. The mean old medical authorities are ignoring me! They must be jealous. Yeah, that's it.

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This is also a well documented phenomena in the US if the compound isn't patent-able. You gotta get the $50mm to get it through the FDA from somewhere, and if there are no patents there's literally zero years before the generics come out.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140925/08202528637/crowd...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichloroacetic_acid

So if this guy doesn't want to play ball with a pharmaceutical company, it's entirely likely that his research could go under-reported or under-utilized for many years.

Now of course, these facts don't MAKE his story true. Just that your offhand dismissal of the possibility of it being true isn't quite so rock solid.

Except the researcher is distributing the drug without charging for it. He's not interested in the money.

How does he finance his operation?

He has more than one research, he even has a factory where he provides materials to a big company here in Brasil. It is irrelevant for this discussion anyways, since it is completely unrelated.

Well it could have been the case that he still makes money from the drug, just not from directly selling it. People could make donations, or he could give seminars where people pay to learn how to get healthy, or whatever. Or people prefer to do business with him because he has such a good reputation. So it's not irrelevant.

JoeAltmaier you are breaching the negativity rules.

You're just being negative here by willfully ignoring that said doctor is giving the drug away for free, which is not the usual modus operandi of quack doctors.

Fair enough. Question: are there rules about posting cancer cures that the powers that be don't want you knowing about?

Fun fact. If you're referring to a snake oil salesman in the US with that tag line, he's in a federal prison in Montgomery, AL for the next 7 years.

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