Jonas Edward Salk (1914 – 1995) was an American medical researcher and virologist who discovered and developed the first successful polio vaccine but did NOT patent it. "Could you patent the sun?" he famously said in a tv interview. He could not care less about financial incentives, what economic irrationality and human greatness! Even by your own account, Wartman’s cure was developed by his friends, not by financial incentives (aka greed). Financial incentives and engineering may be a potent weapon in the quest to create a financial cancer (such as the global debt overhang) rather than cure a human cancer.