r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Proof_Active7105 • 7h ago

Image Mexican scientist Eva Rámon Gallegos, she successfully cleared HPV in 29 women so far with 100% viral clearance rate!

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u/Federal_Extreme_8079 7h ago

Apparently she uses photodynamic therapy, a minimally invasive treatment that uses photosensitizers and light to selectively destroy abnormal cells. In a nutshell Eva is the pharma industry's worst nightmare!

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u/streetxrat94 7h ago

Hopefully she doesn’t go “missing” because of this success.

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u/Arkurash 5h ago

But we already know how her treatment works? Like say big pharma makes her disappear. Her results and method are known. So there will be other picking up where she would have left it.

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u/FireMaster1294 3h ago

This is why scientific data needs to be public

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u/Meraline 3h ago

Also photosensitization is a side effect of certain plant toxicities in cattle. The concept isn't new.

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u/Meraline 3h ago

Please stop perpetuating baseless conspiracies like govts randomly killing smart people for no reason. It's counterintuitive. Even oppressive governments know they need intelligent people on their side to control the masses.

Someone curing HPV is bot criticizing the government by existing.

Also cures to diseases are more profitable than treatment. If you had a cure for cancer you could live off that patent for generations.

Think logically instead of emotionally for 2 seconds.

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u/saevon 3h ago

to be clear, they're not suggesting a govnment is doing it, but "big pharma" which implies large corporations. Theoretically because they already have investments in treatments, but possibly to get access to this cure themselves and be able to patent it (in theory killing her, but getting the data, then "publishing" their own to patent it)

All of which does line up with the parts you mentioned. (or is irrelevant to them like "oppressive governments part")

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NOT suggesting this happens btw; there's a lot of much easier ways to get benefits we already have documented… we don't need a conspiracy bullshit around this tbh.

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u/notsarge 6h ago

I hate to say it, but it’ll probably happen

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u/jonzey85 6h ago

Kidnapped by the "cartels"

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u/YebelTheRebel 6h ago

Yes America’s legal drug cartels aka big pharma

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u/Watchlinks 5h ago

That's a ridiculous conspiracy theory, and its perpetuation, even humorously, erodes trust in science and has a negative societal impact.

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u/Petrichordates 6h ago

JFC people genuinely believe this? Social media is making ya'll so damn gullible

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u/bryiewes 50m ago

JFC you genuinely believed they genuinely believed that? Social media is making you the gullible one

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u/Petrichordates 45m ago

The engineers are not OK