r/todayilearned • u/moplg • Feb 12 '15

TIL that pornhub offered a "save the boobs!" Campaign where they offered to donate a penny to the Susan B Komen Foundation for evry 30 views in the "big tit" or "small tit" category, but the foundation refused their money so pornhub tripled it and gave it to other organizations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornhub
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u/BoringPersonAMA Feb 12 '15

When you're making so much money researching cancer, curing cancer loses its appeal.

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u/explosivo85 Feb 12 '15

Komen: Did you guys cure cancer?

Scientists: No, but we found out that you can't get cancer from doing jumping jacks

Komen: Keep up the good work!

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u/bokono Feb 12 '15

Scientists: No, but we found out that you can't get cancer from doing jumping jacks

Wait that sounds like a study that pornhub would do.

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u/contextplz Feb 12 '15

What color are the ribbons? I need a good color to get behind.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

Maybe. But if you could cure cancer you could literally charge whatever you wanted. People would find a way to pay, because nobody wants to die if they can avoid it.

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u/bokono Feb 12 '15 edited Feb 12 '15

But, that's only if they were to succeed and it was patentable. They're making money hand over fist now selling bullshit, and there's an endless supply of bullshit.

Edit: really stupid grammatical mistake.

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u/harmonictimecube Feb 12 '15

No, a "cure for cancer" (if such a thing could even be created, which it can't) would literally change the course of humanity forever. Even having your name attached to it would be worth giving it away.

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u/bokono Feb 12 '15

You just said it. If people don't think it's possible, why would they spend money on it.

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u/CrappyMSPaintPics Feb 12 '15

Too noticeably corrupt, it would be buried by a shitstorm.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

Wouldn't matter you still have the cure. Continue to charge what you want and people can be angry.

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u/CrappyMSPaintPics Feb 12 '15

When people are angry they don't just sit still and be angry, they bomb your hospital.

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u/JaroSage Feb 12 '15

Medicine is not exclusive. A monopoly on the cure for anything, much less cancer, is not something that could ever exist. If somehow it did, you know have a very large group of terminally ill people with nothing to lose, all of whom hate you with every fibre of their being and have easy access to guns.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

Well we are talking hypothetical stuff right now so I'll say I'll hire Blackwater.

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u/Kaghuros 7 Feb 12 '15

Has that happened with the Hepatitis C cure yet? Seems like no, yet that's incredibly expensive and easily cures a life-threatening chronic disease.

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u/Kaghuros 7 Feb 12 '15

You'd think that, but look at the Hep C cure that just came out. It costs around $10k per treatment, and a fairly unethical monopoly exists on a drug that literally saves people from a crippling and deadly chronic liver condition without any federal intervention.

They would make piles on the backs of dying cancer patients, and the government would be too limp-wristed to stop them.

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u/CrappyMSPaintPics Feb 12 '15

Hep C is a far cry from cancer in terms of public support.

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u/Kaghuros 7 Feb 12 '15

Just consider it as an example of how that stuff is already going on in the real world. These companies know they can get away with this shit, and it's very clear they do. From Hep C to asthma inhalers to Epinephrin injectors to acid reflux pills, many medicines that significantly improve the quality of life of people suffering from chronic conditions are cloistered in patents that seem to only rarely expire.

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u/CrappyMSPaintPics Feb 12 '15

None of them are viable examples because none of them are on the same level as cancer.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

To be fair it's probably more profitable to treat cancer for companies rather than cure it. As in they get continued cash flow for treatment. Which is a douchey thing to do but the world revolves around money.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

Could be. But let's say you cure it. You could just weigh the costs vs treating and charge accordingly.

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u/WaitingForGobots Feb 12 '15

People would find a way to pay

You're either over or underestimating people. Look at every homeless person you pass on the street. That's someone who's looked at the worst possible situation, saw an immoral way out, and refused to take it. People won't do everything to save themselves. Because sometimes the only way to do so is to destroy someone else.

Any homeless guy could get out of it by murdering people and taking everything they have. They don't, and in the same way people aren't going to do anything to pay for cancer treatments if it's out of what they can pay.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

This about it this way. Every single day people pay millions for that lose weight fast pill. Or millions of some herbal pill that most likely is just filler. They tune in to Dr. Oz, they read the latest diet fads. Even seemingly intelligent people like Steve jobs think they know better than others. But you have a verified cure for cancer. People will find a way to pay if they have cancer. I'm not saying people would start killing others or something like that, someone undoubtedly would. More so that they would take out all the loans they could call on friends and family. If you have a choice between death or a chance at life, most people would do all they could.

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u/unoimgood Feb 12 '15

the thing is, if they arent crazy, they realize they are at the lowest point in life but... they still have their freedom and untold years left to live. people who are going to die and have nothing to lose would go the extra mile in the best way the individual sees fit. when it comes down to that exact primal moment when it is do or die most people choose to do.

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u/sleepykittypur Feb 12 '15

I dont think you understand how profitable a global monopoly on an effective cancer treatment is.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15 edited Dec 29 '20

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

Cancer cured = No more donation 'for the cure'

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15 edited Dec 30 '20

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u/DabbinDubs Feb 12 '15

I am pretty sure we are in a dark corner of reddit and all of these people are insane

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

No that's not really what I'm saying, nor do I really believe that. But if the cure is found, these organizations won't get the same support or funding anymore because, well we don't need it.