Did George Zimmerman really call Obama a " monkey"?

I rarely agree with David Cameron, but I did when he said that many drugs were overpriced. I think that's an understatement. Big pharma is robbing the NHS blind, they spend more on marketing than research (taxpayers and charities pick up a lot of the bills for research).

Knowledge has a cash value, it can be shared between a public lab and a private lab and later the private company can patent the drug which results from it. Many of these cases seem to involve cancer drugs, so if you donate money to cancer research, and also pay the taxes to buy the drugs you helped pay for, you are being scammed! It is extremely common for public laboratories, private laboratories and university departments to be geographically close to each other and often employ many of the same people.

Margaret Thatcher decreed that all publically funded research must be aimed at producing a marketable product, but she didn't insist that the product should be publically owned. I remember from my time in public funded science, concern about the knowledge in our heads falling into the wrong hands. We were expected to present data at conferences and mingle with other scientists from the public and private sector, but at the same time sign confidentiality agreements that rendered our research the property of the institution which funded us.

When NICE says that a drug isn't giving value for money, they are doing their job, judging its costs and benefits. There are many reasons to be sceptical about the claims made by drug companies: http://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2015/08/27/... Refusing to buy the drugs could be simply a bargaining tool, the NHS using it's formidable buying power. The NHS automatically agreeing to buy all drugs whatever the price is actually quite corrupt when you think about it.

There is, however, also much to criticise about foreign aid: It is a donation from the taxpayers of one country to the government of another, and this can undermine the principal of accountability: when governments spend money obtained by taxing their own citizens, it makes them accountable to their citizens. Even despots rule by consent of their citizens. Also a lot of foreign aid is blatantly corrupt and comes with strings attached: money for a hydroelectric dam which must be built by a firm from the donor country for instance, and an under the table deal to buy the donor country's weapons.

IMO what is needed is a clearer line between public and private sectors in both foreign aid and medical research. More use of not for profit companies would also help.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.