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The subject of suppressed-invention conspiracy also touches on the realm of medical quackery: proponents of more unlikely forms of alternative medicine are known to allege conspiracy by mainstream doctors to suppress their cures.
Such conspiracies are often said to include government regulators, to the extent that a legal decision may be relevant. Some medical conspiracy theorists argue that the medical community could actually cure supposedly “incurable” diseases such as cancer (like the noted Luigi di Bella’s medicines) and AIDS if it really wanted to, but instead prefers to suppress the cures as a way of extorting more funding from the government and donors, as well as from the patients themselves. The costs for long-term treatment are generally higher than for a one-time cure.
Other medical conspiracies charge that pharmaceutical companies are in league with some medical practitioners to ‘invent’ new diseases, such as ADD, ADHD, HSV and HPV.