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Originally posted by nocostporn
can't cure a common cold but can put a man on the moon?...be for real
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Thats because "common cold" symptoms are caused by hundreds of slightly different viruses, with new variants appearing all the time. You would have to develop a vaccine for each of the hundreds of strains, innoculate everyone with all of those vaccines, and then create new ones for the new strains that appear every year. The common cold could be cured, but the return is not worth the stupendous investment of time, effort and money.
On second thoughts, feel free to completely ignore the preceeding paragraph. Conspiracy theories amuse me enough that I don't want to prevent any new ones that may be fermenting in your overactive imagination from coming to fruition.