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" ... Mwele Malecela: When we talk about NTDs, we are referring to some twenty very diverse diseases – some are parasitic, some of them are bacterial, others are viral, and others still are protozoal. They have a couple of common elements: in the first place, these diseases occur predominantly in populations living in the tropics, that is to say in parts of the world that have, for a great many reasons, been poor, in global historical terms. As a result of that – and this is the other adjective in the group’s name – many of these diseases have been neglected, which means that they haven’t been researched as fully as other diseases, and that treatments were developed more slowly than those for more visible diseases. ... "
" ... Overall, the authors claim that the loss of life expectancy globally “from air pollution surpasses that of HIV/AIDS, parasitic, vector-borne, and other infectious diseases by a large margin. It exceeds the [loss of life expectancy] due to all forms of violence by an order of magnitude and that of smoking by a third.” ... "
" ... Private companies that buy and sell our data are parasitic leeches that thrive on the host of our indifference. They are the cockroaches in the basement of the house that piracy built. And while the immediate drawbacks can be anecdotally problematic, the intensity of our concern is disproportionate to how easy it is to cancel a compromised credit card. There’s no immediate equivalent to “buckle up so you don’t fly through the windshield,” but there are scenarios that get pretty grim in the short-term, especially when you factor in facial recognition and physical tracking. ... "
" ... The idea for the Dallas, Texas-based company grew out of one of the most notorious pricing scandals of the last decade: when so-called “Pharma Bro” Martin Shrkeli raised the price of Daraprim 5,000%—from $13.50 to $750 per tablet—while he was CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals. The drug is used to treat a severe parasitic infection. “I was just so livid about that,” says Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company founder and CEO Alex Oshmyansky, who is also a practicing physician. “I had patients have serious injuries from the high cost of drugs, which should have been very cheap. I've been angry about it for a long time.” ... "
" ... Unfortunately, it often doesn’t work out so well in the real world. People get wealthy in a manner that makes others worse off. This is true of drug dealers, for example. But, it is also true of a wide variety of businesses that are benefiting from a sort of parasitic “crony capitalism,” which typically involves the government in some way. The defense industries, big pharma, healthcare, education and financial industries have a lot of this. It has been particularly true in recent years, where it seems, through Federal Reserve financial distortion or government “bailout” and “stimulus” spending, people are getting rich who don’t deserve it. ... "