Political Quotes

“the Biotechnology Organization represents over 1,000 biotechnology companies and their members all over the country and in every State. California, Massachusetts, and Maryland have the highest concentration of biocompanies in the United States. I think what people understand and what my colleagues understand is that the biofield is a fairly new field. When I was in medical school, these biotech companies were not out there. The drugs they are looking at today were nonexistent. For the most part, they are in their infancy today. Fifty years from now and looking back, we will see on the curve an increase that right now we are at the beginning of. Of the 130 biotech drugs approved by the FDA, all were produced by fewer than 100 companies. As I just said, there are over 1,000 biotechnology companies that exist today. What that means is, if you have ten companies working at the early research stage to figure out what drug is going to cure HIV/AIDS, or reverse a certain case of emphysema or reverse that blood clot just about ready to cause a stroke in your brain, one company will ultimately produce an effective product. Many of these companies are small, emerging companies.”