Biotech Values

[oldberkeley]

Righteous indignation lost its street cred during the 1960s, so I will spare you good people my specific thoughts on the morals of Retrophin. Let's all hold hands and agree that we love capitalism. We love helping and treating patients. We love science and the possibility of curing disease. But we abhor predatory capitalism on the backs of the sick and silent.

Ancient Greek healers and apothecaries generally looked at their profession as a calling and a gift from the gods, but they were not averse to accepting a goat or some coins since they too had to eat.

We just might have drifted a tad away from that.