Anyone who says that doesn't know much about medicine or pharma companies. It's not like there's one single pharma company that controls all development and decides no cures. Companies are constantly trying to scoop each other with better or different treatments for things. This is the first crispr based treatment for a genetic disease approved. But we already have gene therapies for multiple other disorders approved and on the market already. And the silly conspiracy totally falls apart when you consider the drugs and things that often get attacked. Like sure lipitor makes a lot of money, but it prevents a huge humber of strokes and heart attacks that are waaaaaay more expensive to treat than just some lipitor. Not to mention vaccines and all our other preventative medicines. And most often something you take every day is just a way safer and easier way to treat something. Could someone do a gene editing thing to change your genes that regulate cholesterol and other lipids? Yeah I suppose it's feasible. But gene editing and gene therapies are still new and carry a lot of risks. It's why you see a lot of these gene therapies are getting approved for deadly things like spinal muscular atrophy and sickle cell where the risk is worth it. There's plenty of evil terrible stuff in the pharmaceutical industry as it is without making up new conspiracies that don't even make any sense. Alright, end of rant.