Acne Cures & Conspiracies
It’s frequently said that there is no cure for acne, only treatments. This is basically true. Even treatments that do get to the root of the problem, such as vitamin B5 solutions and vitamin A derivatives, still have to be consistently taken in order to continue working. They are not ‘cures’, in the sense of one-time solutions that prevent acne from ever coming back.
That said, any visit to a forum will usually reveal some conspiracy nut who happens to think “the medical community doesn’t want a cure, because there is more money in selling treatments, etc.” Today is 9/11, and as the reaction to that event should show, there is no shortage of conspiracy nuts out there. However, this kind of thinking is just plain dumb.
Understand that in a capitalist economy, individuals and individual companies are concerned with their own personal financial gains, not the gains of ‘the industry’. For instance, if I had some wonder drug that once-and-for-all cured acne, would I NOT bring it to market for fear of lowering the profit margins of the industry at large? Only if I was a moron, because regardless of the industry’s fate, I would stand to make a huge fortune. It would be like Apple refusing to launch the iPod because they didn’t want to devalue the overall profits of the music industry. It’s absurd.
Even large companies are made up of individuals - individuals that would gladly leave those companies and start their own if they saw the chance to launch a superior product. Frankly, many leading companies are started by entrepreneurs who did just that. There is no secretive medical community that keeps all the world’s cures hidden in order to milk the public with their non-cure treatments. The free market is competitive. As long as someone stands to benefit, you can bet they’ll try.
