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Martin Shkreli, the former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals AG, has launched a list to shame other pharmaceutical companies:
This week, a pharmaceutical trade group stepped up its efforts to distance itself from Martin Shkreli, the disgraced ex-CEO of several drug companies who gained notoriety for an eye-popping drug price increase and an indictment for securities fraud. The trade group even made a television ad to try to bolster its image and make clear that it is different—better—than the likes of Shkreli and his greedy ways.
Is it, though? If you ask Shkreli, it's not. And he's made a website to try to convince you.
On the bare-bones Pharmaskeletons.com, an angry and vengeful Shkreli lists instances of greed, criminal behavior, and other sleaziness of individual members of the pharmaceutical trade group PhRMA. Not all his claims are backed up, explained, or accurate. But the site still offers an embarrassing catalogue of bad deeds, which Shkreli told STAT he would continually update.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @01:42AM
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday January 26 2017, @01:56AM
That's a lot of wasted potential.
Can we organize a Battle Royale between Unethical Lawyers, corrupt government members, and Asshole-Level-Greed Executives?
Producers would make a truckload of cash, but they'd need to settle for Pirate OTA Broadcast, after season 1 decapitates most Broadcasting companies and ISPs...
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday January 26 2017, @02:51AM
That could work. The contests could be to the death and be held in some kind of arena. If the bouts started to get a little stale they could mix it up with ravenous beasts trying to eat the contestants. The Donald could sit in judgement as a tie-breaker in close matches, and dispatch the vanquished with a mighty, "You're FIRED!!!" So people didn't think he was too mean he could wear something symbolic of peace, like a garland made out of olive branches.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday January 26 2017, @04:13PM
I'd generally approve of your plan, but the Donald should be in the arena as a corrupt government official, not in some box suite as a spectator. I mean, I understand the whole "bread-and-circuses" aspect of the whole activity, but if we can get the corporate bigwigs into the arena, certainly we should be able to get the president and most of Congress in there too.
Instead of the president sitting in judgment, I nominate Steven Seagal to act as referee.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday January 26 2017, @04:44PM
Interesting. Not Chuck Norris?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday January 26 2017, @05:26PM
Chuck Norris isn't impartial enough, due to his very public support of Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday January 26 2017, @10:20PM
Hmm, yes, but as an aikido guy Steven Segal would manage only half the THWACK! that Chuck can. It's all about the THWACK!
Washington DC delenda est.