If you had empathy for them, you’d want that money going to making sure they have regular appointments with experts who are much more likely to know if it’s something that is likely to help or if it’s just another clone drug that marginally better for some people but really just designed to extend patents and charge an absurd premium rather than peddling that stuff as a serious hope for every person suffering from the disease just to let them down again.
If you had empathy for them, you’d want that money going to making sure they have regular appointments with experts who are much more likely to know if it’s something that is likely to help or if it’s just another clone drug that marginally better for some people but really just designed to extend patents and charge an absurd premium rather than peddling that stuff as a serious hope for every person suffering from the disease just to let them down again.