Comment · Mon, December 7, 2015 · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
Neuralstem's CEO wrote a blog post about nootropics and NSI-189
What they were answering
staspmr · 2 points
Yea but putting the black hat on, people are profiting off their work. Imagine you were developing a game or something and while it was in Alpha stage, some guy stole it from you and was selling it on ebay for $30. Then in 5 years when you put in thousands of dollars into releasing it, nobody wants it anymore, because people can get it for a 10th of the price or don't even need it anymore.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
If the game development was paid for by the Department of Defense (DARPA) and the National Institute for Health, using tax dollars, and had the possibility of helping people with major depression from taking their own lives, then I think the parallel would be more accurate. I do not blame Neuralstem one bit for the actions they have to take. However, let's not compare this to a game. NSI-189's development was paid for by our tax dollars, in the hopes that it will help people with depression. Telling those people to wait 5 years till it is approved is basically worthless to them. It's not a game that nobody will want anymore when it gets approved. It also is not a product privately funded by Neuralstem. It's a publicly funded compound for the treatment of depression. It should not be a surprise that depressed people are willing to risk researching it now, rather than waiting for trials to conclude.