Everybody can make ClO2, you simply mix sodium chlorite with acid. This patent seems to not be about making big money but about treating cancer. There have been thousands of people who cured their cancer with it so it's high time a study proves it.
Right, patents don't prove, studies do. There are quite a few studies that do prove the potency of chlorine dioxide. A patent may it give them validity.
It's the other way around. You patent, then do the research. That way no one can gazump you on it. Otherwise you'd get totally screwed. No company wants to lay out a shitload for research costs on something that they might not even own if they prove it to work - you patent it before you start setting up the lab.
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PinkiePunk ago
It's a patent. Not a cure. They're just HOPING it works. This is the START of the process. You can patent all sorts of things, doesn't mean they work.
Also it's a crazy patent given that ClO2 isn't gonna be hard to make.
divine_human ago
Everybody can make ClO2, you simply mix sodium chlorite with acid. This patent seems to not be about making big money but about treating cancer. There have been thousands of people who cured their cancer with it so it's high time a study proves it.
PinkiePunk ago
It hasn't proved anything. It's a patent.
divine_human ago
Right, patents don't prove, studies do. There are quite a few studies that do prove the potency of chlorine dioxide. A patent may it give them validity.
PinkiePunk ago
It's the other way around. You patent, then do the research. That way no one can gazump you on it. Otherwise you'd get totally screwed. No company wants to lay out a shitload for research costs on something that they might not even own if they prove it to work - you patent it before you start setting up the lab.