Movie Details
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Aaron Spelling,
E. Duke Vincent
Production Companies:HBO Films
And the Band Played On on the Web:WikiData
And the Band Played On Quotes
Conflict Over Collaboration in Virus Research
Dr. Robert Gallo:
All right, explain one thing to me. Ten times ten times ten, my name is in every book ever written on the human retrovirus. Why would you get in bed with the French instead of me?
Dr. Don Francis:
Is it you against the French? I thought we were all against the virus. If you go to court now, everybody loses. You, the people who die while you quibble...
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Ethics vs. Profit in the Blood Industry
Blood Bank executive: [[CDC]
Is the ] seriously suggesting that the blood industry spends $100M a year to use the test for the wrong disease because we have a handful of transfusion fatalities and eight dead hemophiliacs?
Dr. Don Francis:
How many dead hemophiliacs do you need? How many people have to die to make it cost efficient for you people to do something about it? A hundred? A thousand? Give us a number so we won't annoy you again until the amount of money you begin spending on lawsuits make it more profitable for you to save people than to kill them.
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