Archive for the 'Brazil' Category

Well, as expected, another country has joined Thailand in threatening to “break the patent” for Merck’s Efavirenz. Bloomberg has some reporting of the dispute, and it’s filled with sideways adjectives describing the dispute in a quite stilted way. But this is to be expected, after all someone is trying to buck the patent [...]

From the Gilbert and Sullivan 1881 hit Patience, there’s this little ditty that always seems an appropriate description of some certain pretentious person. You might even know more than one person this applies to. Since most of us can’t remember 1881 very well, I have the lyrics below the fold: