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I guess my point of view is, truly game-changing pharmaceuticals should be shared with the world. And there's precedent for that. Jonas Salk did not patent the polio vaccine he discovered, and the world is a better place for it.

Boner pills? Sure, go nuts on patenting those. But HIV prevention? No, it's immoral to patent this.



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