Another example of how you get polls to say whatever you want based on how you phrase the question:
"Sixty-one percent of U.S. adults believe poorer countries should be allowed to break companies' patents on HIV/AIDS drugs if doing so would help them treat more of their population, according to a new poll.
When asked specifically about a recent move by Brazil to break the patent on an AIDS drug made by Merck & Co. and provide a generic version instead, 57% said they were in favor of the country's decision, while 20% said they were opposed, the Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive health-care poll found."
Too bad people didn't know that Brazil spends more on their military than in on public health or more on their ag-bio programs than on their HIV programs.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118227672705940767-search.html?KEYWORDS=harris+interactive&COLLECTION=wsjie/6month
"Sixty-one percent of U.S. adults believe poorer countries should be allowed to break companies' patents on HIV/AIDS drugs if doing so would help them treat more of their population, according to a new poll.
When asked specifically about a recent move by Brazil to break the patent on an AIDS drug made by Merck & Co. and provide a generic version instead, 57% said they were in favor of the country's decision, while 20% said they were opposed, the Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive health-care poll found."
Too bad people didn't know that Brazil spends more on their military than in on public health or more on their ag-bio programs than on their HIV programs.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118227672705940767-search.html?KEYWORDS=harris+interactive&COLLECTION=wsjie/6month
