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Maryland company files with FDA drug that cures AIDS

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Thanks, I feel both valued and safe now.

The site says:

"Our European visitors are important to us.

This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws."

Yeah, it's very disingenuous, what they actually should say is

"You can't use our services your government asked us to be considerate about your personal data, and you are not important enough to make that happen"

Alternatively: "there's so few of you that the cost of adding yet another set of laws to our compliance routine is greater than the revenue you'd generate".

Online publishing is low margin and this appears to be a local news station so it probably does make sense from a strict business perspective. I wouldn't be surprised if they're outsourcing compliance auditing and GDPR is a check box that cost money so they just chose to block instead. You don't need to assume questionable ethics when there's a perfectly ethical business case. Sure it would be nice if online news wasn't monetized with our data but that's not the world we live in you can't blame a local news station for not trying to be the ones to challenge the status quo.

Not exactly. It's an American company not trying to go to market in the EU; why would it invest in legal compliance with European regs? Even were the company to not store any data, there are lots of compliance steps which companies must take to _prove_ they are operating within the law. In these circumstances, it doesn't make sense to work on European compliance.

You've missed the point.

If they've no interest in going "to market" in the EU, why lie about European visitors being valued?

What you've said isn't inaccurate, it's just not relevant to the message that Europeans are shown.

I just wanted to reply "Thank you George".

If you still want to read, outline works fine:

https://outline.com/KA3LDn

To be honest, I prefer this over the non GDRP-compliant "by the way, we're tracking you, cool?" notices that most sites seem to think is okay these days. Both lead to the site being immediately closed, but at least with the former I didn't "implicitly agree" to anything.

I'm generally not a fan of the EU (or bureaucracies in general) but it seems that with regards to digital legislation and rulings they tend to at least work with good intentions (at least imo). One can argue about the implementation but I generally applaud any afford towards more privacy. They get some credit from me because I consider the lack of software patents (with minor exceptions) one of the biggest European triumphs in recent history.

Link to article on a GDPR-compliant site:

https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2019/11/08/maryland-medical-c...

The posted title elevates the claims over the original article:

> Medical company believes they have the cure for HIV/AIDS

HK title (at time of posting):

> Maryland company files with FDA drug that cures AIDS

Ignoring the fact that the post title erroneously removed "HIV" it also made it misleading with the "cure" claim. Even the company themselves claim less than the title:

> we think our project may be able to do that.

So, yes, exciting drug trial. But let's hold off on proclaiming this has "cured" HIV/Aids until we're there.

The title is indeed editorialization.

They are submitting an IND, which is great but they still have Phase 1, 2 and 3 to go. It's also a cell therapy so if it works, it's likely to be quite expensive to receive.

That said, if it works, it's a wonderful breakthrough that will hopefully spur others.

Pretty irresponsible way to frame this story, which is about a drug that has never touched a human patient. Lots of HIV/AIDS drugs or even “cures” have made it much farther than this.

I'd be very happy if it turned out to be true but, for now, there are no real details (at least in the article) and there's quite a ways to go before it reaches approval. Best to see how this unfolds before jumping the gun with celebrations.

Title should be "cures HIV/aids".

"Cures aids" is not the same thing by a long shot.

I hope the same method could be applied to cure other viral diseases as well.

Here's a response to this article: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/11/11/to...

It's a bit disingenuous to be talking about a "cure" before you've tried something in a single human being.

hopefully there will be a lot more similar filings , because this is not even in phase 1

Headline is highly misleading.

Assuming this is a real cure for HIV, I’m curious what this will do to the HIV/AIDS charity industry. Would we still have “run for the cure”? Will red ribbons still mean AIDS?

I assume it will be like what happened with polio, smallpox, etc. Victory means the vast majority of people give it no thought.

But this is a gene therapy not a vaccine. It will cost $100k+ so accessibility will be a problem.

The vast majority of charities for any illness are run by parents or the afflicted. They just get on with their lives.

Ask yourself, what did all the charities fighting polio, measles, etc. do when vaccines came out? They shuttered up the charities or moved on to other illnesses.

Google the history of the March of Dimes

That's a great example! They switched to supporting polio victims and then, eventually, became a general disabled persons support charity.

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