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1966 - I was 12 and away at Boys’ Brigade Camp. Took the ferry to the Isle of Wight and kept my radio to my ear. When Hurst scored the goal that put us ahead in extra time I ran up Ryde Pier and slipped on the damp boards nearly losing my radio over the side.

1968 - the first English team to win the European Cup. Yes, I am aware that Celtic did it the year before and that too was memorable.

2001 - my daughter rang me to say that a plane had hit a skyscraper in New York.

There were any number of others but the first two were joyful memories and we need more of those.

1986 Challenger
1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
2008 Financial crash

Like many I could have had a bigger list.

Aberfan - the first big news story that stuck in my memory. I was 8 years old.

9/11 also the death of Osama Bin Laden. 

Chernobyl

On the economic side, the idea of hiding a cure because they make more out of selling the treatment - just doesn't make sense economically

Because if every other company is covering up a cure - it means the one company that releases the actual cure gets a decades long patent and immediately takes all the money away from all their competitors
 

I take your point here, but there is a huge difference between "hiding a cure" and being happy having a "decades long patent" on something that alleviates symptoms (which may have arisen from an attempt to find a cure).

 

.... On his advice my other half had chemo back in the UK, she had 4 drugs, 3 were artificial copies of natural remedies. If the drugs companies can't make money out of something they are unlikely to pay for research to prove that it works.

There is always not enough money to research everything, but the usual criteria for ranking isn't how much money it might make but how likely it is to work

If it works - pharma companies can make money out of it

We know this because - you've already stated that they do it

Anything that is naturally curative in nature is more convenient and often more effective once a company has worked out a way to mass produce it and put it in a shop

On the economic side, the idea of hiding a cure because they make more out of selling the treatment - just doesn't make sense economically

Because if every other company is covering up a cure - it means the one company that releases the actual cure gets a decades long patent and immediately takes all the money away from all their competitors
 
The only time when not making money stops research is when the entire market for a disease - are poor

This is why there's a whole branch called "neglected tropical disease" - these are all the diseases that it is not profitable for private companies to research because it wouldn't be guaranteed to get their research money back - so they rely on charitable foundations and government grants. it's worth noting the majority of all scientific research done worldwide is government grants and not private companies - for example even if zero pharma companies spent money on cancer research it would still be one of the most researched areas because of all the government grants that go towards it.

Unless anyone is planning on moving to deepest African then they're not really going to be affected by that

Anything that can be sold to comfortable middle class westerners will always be researched because it will always make money

And we definitely know this - because the Wellness alternative health industry makes more money than Big Pharma does

1) The death of Elvis (The 1st and only time I saw my Dad cry)

2) 911

3) Covid (more the aftermath, rather the actually period during)

Elvis dying was very sad day. I was going on 19, came in from the pub to find my Mum and sister in tears. Luxembourg 208 played Elvis songs all night.

Elvis was a spent force when he died. I was far more affected by Hendrix going and he had so much more to give.

I was weened on Elvis, Mum was a huge fan. That's why it was a sad time in our household.

Yeah, I get that.

1) The death of Elvis (The 1st and only time I saw my Dad cry)

2) 911

3) Covid (more the aftermath, rather the actually period during)

Elvis dying was very sad day. I was going on 19, came in from the pub to find my Mum and sister in tears. Luxembourg 208 played Elvis songs all night.

Elvis was a spent force when he died. I was far more affected by Hendrix going and he had so much more to give.

I was weened on Elvis, Mum was a huge fan. That's why it was a sad time in our household.

Boldie's trip to Vegas

 

1) The death of Elvis (The 1st and only time I saw my Dad cry)

2) 911

3) Covid (more the aftermath, rather the actually period during)

Elvis dying was very sad day. I was going on 19, came in from the pub to find my Mum and sister in tears. Luxembourg 208 played Elvis songs all night.

Elvis was a spent force when he died. I was far more affected by Hendrix going and he had so much more to give.

The whole pharma industry is full of conflicts of interest, the biggest being,imo, if they can sell a treatment for the symptoms of some ailment rather than the cause (a cure), they have many years of product sales rather than a single course of drugs.

I do take the multivits, but not sure if they do any good. Last year I got the vit D sell from someone whose brother is a prof of oncology at Royal Marsden, so it does seemingly have some support among relevant professionals.