Patenting Breast Cancer Is The Most Generous Gift You Could Give!

As of late the new trend in patenting is not to patent a process or invention but in fact to patent genes. This all started with the suspiciously Luthor Corp like company Monsanto attempting to patent seeds they genetically tweaked (without testing their effect on the environment of course) so they could in fact patent the world's food supply and claim patent infringement on any farm that doesn't pay to use their demon seeds (going so far as to sue the world seed vault to destroy all natural occurring seeds). As the law states you can't patent nature, but if you tweak nature it's fair game.

So why then is Myriad Genetics attempting to patent the gene that causes breast cancer?

It's naturally occurring, they didn't create it (hopefully), and it's a product that almost no one would want to buy (since everyone who receives it for free can't wait to get rid of it).

The simple answer is that they want to charge research facilities money to search for a cure....

Let me rephrase and repeat that "Myriad Genetics wants to financially penalize people for attempting to cure cancer". That's right even cancer has it's supporters (actually the entire pharmaceutical industry along with much of the hmo's and for profit healthcare industry).

Besides the glaring fact that nobody should be able to patent a gene natural or otherwise this is a naturally occurring gene so anyone who has it can be sued by Myriad. Now conversely this means that Myriad has laid claim to breast cancer and is itself responsible for such a dangerous product.

That means that everyone who has or had breast cancer and the families of people who died of it should be able to sue Myriad for releasing such a dangerous product. In fact since it has killed so many people I would think criminal charges would come into play.

In fact this could mean a "full product recall of cancer" which means anyone who caught breast cancer could go to Myriad to return it and Myriad would in fact have to pay to cure them!

This could be an incredibly generous gift to the world that Myriad provides under a thick veil of greed, insensitivity to human suffering, and a purely evil intent. Yes let them patent it, let them be held liable for it too. We'll either see Myriad's ruin, Myriad cure everyone with breast cancer for free, or a world in which companies can no longer patent genes.

Someone should patent testicle cancer because I could really use a vacation in the south pacific.

- Dr. Intoxicated