Then they should also be clobbered. They both should be forced to sodomize an AIDS-ridden corpse and then each other and then when they give each other AIDS we'll see what happens.
I've seen other pictures of this dude. He looks like a guy in his thirties who styles his hair based on what will best get back at his mom for not driving him and his friends to Warped Tour, and while his Twitter was public he came off as that adult nobody would date who hangs out at malls and high schools misusing "on fleek" and "swag" to try and convince the girls to come check out his murphy bed.
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That medication is also used to treat toxoplasmosis in pregnant women, which can seriously damage or kill both the woman and the fetus
the CLAIM is the price increase is for research into better treatments for the issue, IF the claim is TRUE and ALL of that money really does go towards that, than i find it understandable.
I heard the news this morning. I can't believe it! There MUST be an explanation... I always try to look at the bright side of things, but this time is so damn hard.
He just got hacked today and they released his home adress, his home phone number, and his cell phone number. Peice of shit deserves any and everything that happens to him.
i really, really, dislike internet vigilante justice. This is not how we do things and public opinion is rarely based on the whole picture which is the entire purpose of the justice system, as well one of the beautiful things about the free market is we can express our opinions with what we spend money on, its not that hard to find out what pots this guys hands are in and stop putting money into them.
Exactly. It happened just as a free market enterprise is supposed to work. He raised the price ridiculously, a ton of people complained, so he's lowering the price.
finding numbers and addresses and terrorizing people and their families for not going along with what you think is right, with threats and actions against their safety and well being, is incidentally, called terrorism. are we really going to start saying terrorism is ok as long as we agree with the reason? i feel like theres several big groups in the news lately that also feel that way... gosh who could those be...
how are we defining "political agenda"? i mean i feel like most the various related agendas this could fit into are political in nature... anti-pharma, anti-big-medicine, various socialized medical care agendas, i mean these are all big deals in a lot of the political debating that happens among people aren't they? of course its hard to define something as a political agenda as nearly any dispute can be boiled down to some sort of political natural.
well, all in all, i am certain he probably is a dick, but two wrongs continue to not make a right and those who lower themselves to this sort of "justice" deserve to also receive punishment. plus there is always the legitimate possibility the increase really is to fund actual research and development, because as i read it this particular medication has been the only option for a long time and isn't really a great one. but god forbid we even consider that possibility, straight to assuming greed and being hateful. things we have not romanticized like breast cancer or childhood diseases do not have huge donations creating funds to pay for research, and it IS a business and they DO need to at LEAST break even on treatments.
...I'm getting the feeling you think I'm in support of the doxxing. In case there's some crossed wires here, I am in agreement with you that he shouldn't have been doxxed, and that the doxxing was unnecessary.
I'm not gonna get into a big debate here but he had family money, bought rights to drug, jacked price up to make money, and it could have horrible consequences for people needing the medication. That's not how the free market is supposed to work. This is what's wrong with economics in America. What if insulin was only made by one company and some cold hearted prick like this guy bought it and jacked the price up so high nobody could afford it? That kind of thinking is what makes insurance companies put ridiculous prices on medical market items. And yes I understand that he has every right to do what he did but it's highly unethical. Also raising the price some 700% is NOT done to just cover costs and make a profit. It's done out of pure greed.
Yes but he's still a giant douche for doing something completely reckless and cold hearted in the first place. Also proves my point that it was done out of greed.
it doesn't prove it, he could have just said fuck it, lets not put money into research then and let them just keep relying on this sub par treatment.
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That would be true, if it was a sub par treatment. So far everything I've read has quoted people as saying that the drug works very well, and Shkreli even stated his intent in raising it was to make a profit:
“Patients deserve a drug company that is turning a profit, a fair profit, and also developing a drug that is better for them,” Shkreli told Bloomberg, claiming his company is now working on three to four other drugs. “They don’t deserve a drug that’s 70 years (old). They deserve a modern medicine.”
Amir Attaran, a University of Ottawa law professor who researches drug regulations, considers a claim “ridiculous.”
“Why would you need to invent another drug?” Attaran said. “This drug works.”
This is also a generic drug, people who looked into it found that Shkreli was NOT researching a better drug. His company hasn't registered anything in the way of trials, research, or any of the visible benchmarks of a company developing or planning to develop a new version of a drug.
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He's the only one making it in the US, and he can price gouge because companies who have been manufacturing the drug on foreign soil for years can't wade through the US FDA's quagmire of regulations to get the drug to consumers here at the affordable prices they've been manufacturing it at. (I don't agree with doxxing him, by the way, I think it's a terrible practice that needs better methods of investigation and criminal punishment. But he IS a greedy dick.)
I'd like to know his rational for that much of a price hike. It's a generic drug that only costs about a dollar a pill to manufacture, so even at $13 per pill that's a hell of a mark-up. It's hard to believe it was just straight greed that guided that decision. There also seems to be a little bit more going on, something about the pill being free to people who are uninsured and qualify somehow.
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Yes, through existing programs I think, which would end up coming out of taxpayer money because Turing would still get its price. There are various quotes from him saying it's for confortable profit and income for investors, which makes me wonder if he didn't take too much money from investors for this new pharmaceutical company he's started and suddenly found himself out of his depth and unable to make good on profit promises. I think until we see a release of Turings financial records we're probably not going to know. He could just be doing the same thing he did with investing... "buy low, sell high, who's really going to ask questions."
What else do you expect from a guy who types at a computer that's not turned on?
Him: "look Mum, I'm using my big boy computer"
Mum: "that's nice, Dear"
Him: [internally "I'm going to raise all my product prices to show Mum how clever I am at making money like the other billionaires in my WOW battalion. Mum's gotta love me then"]
look closer, its on, it likely has those screen guards on it that keeps you from being able to see it anyway but straight on, we have those at the computers in the public area at my job. you can see the outline of the open windows if you peer at it good.
Ah, I can see the outline you're talking about now - darn I thought I was so funny typing my comment up on my phone (the tiny little screen of my phone has let me down this time lol)
If people didn't make money, no drug research would be done.
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Much, if not most, drug research is done in academia and funded by taxpayers. Pharmaceutical companies take these advances, create drugs they sell at high markup exclusively for profit, then refuse to disclose how much or how little they actually spend on research to avoid being called on it. There's a reason working in pharma brings big bucks.
>they should be clobbered
>raised prices, as is his right because he owns the drug
>should be doxxed
“Patients deserve a drug company that is turning a profit, a fair profit, and also developing a drug that is better for them,” Shkreli told Bloomberg, claiming his company is now working on three to four other drugs. “They don’t deserve a drug that’s 70 years (old). They deserve a modern medicine.”
Amir Attaran, a University of Ottawa law professor who researches drug regulations, considers a claim “ridiculous.”
“Why would you need to invent another drug?” Attaran said. “This drug works.”
This is also a generic drug, people who looked into it found that Shkreli was NOT researching a better drug. His company hasn't registered anything in the way of trials, research, or any of the visible benchmarks of a company developing or planning to develop a new version of a drug.
Him: "look Mum, I'm using my big boy computer"
Mum: "that's nice, Dear"
Him: [internally "I'm going to raise all my product prices to show Mum how clever I am at making money like the other billionaires in my WOW battalion. Mum's gotta love me then"]
And law.