[See NewsBusters for more.] A Cuban cancer treatment is coming to the United States and all MSNBC's Thomas Roberts could worry about is if America will "ruin" the drug. On May 12, Roberts hyped the possibilities of Cimavax, which fights lung cancer. Talking to Dr. Kelvin Lee of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Roberts fretted, "...The Cubans have created a drug that costs the government about a dollar per shot, which is unheard of in the cancer treatment. Will the American market ruin it?" Dr. Lee batted this away, assuring, "I think that there are any number of potential economic models one can envision where this would be attractive to U.S. pharmaceutical companies."
