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Interviews: Ask Martin Shkreli a Question
Martin Shkreli has agreed to answer your questions. Shkreli is the co-founder of the hedge fund MSMB Capital Management, the co-founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of the biotechnology firm Retrophin, and the founder and former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals. Shkreli has been active on Twitter about a wide range of topics, including the 2016 presidential election. Most recently, he expressed interest in buying 4chan.
Ask him your questions here, and we'll post the full interview with Shkreli's answers in the near future.
Ask him your questions here, and we'll post the full interview with Shkreli's answers in the near future.
I sincerely hope no one asks this douche a question. And shame on /. for sinking this low.
Its like Slashdot themselves are trolling us.
*Popcorn time*
In as much detail you care to provide, how did you get where you are today?
Interpret that as you will.
Colin Dean Go a year without DRM
Who's your daddy and what does he do?
I take it none of the haters has bothered to watch the interview in which he indulges Vice Magazine. He is surprisingly human, candid, and intelligent in his discourse therein. Also, he offered an interview with
a major affiliate in which he more or less trounced the two anchors who grilled him about Turing's price-hike strategy. This guy is funny as hell and he turns-out to be a rather likable character, actually. I would challenge readers to watch the more recent interviews he has given.
Should compulsory licensing of all medicines be the norm rather than the exception and drug patents be banned. All drug research is based on basic research funded by the NSF so it does not seem fair that Pharma companies get to make the large profits based on doing the last 30% of the journey of bringing a drug to market. A reasonable 50% profit margin over manufacturing costs and a one time bounty based on the importance of the drug should be enough Profit motive .
Such bounties could be announced in advance like the Ansari prizes
This would refocus the Pharma industry from just trying to make money and instead on treating sickness.
It would also make it unattractive for Wall Street Assholes to come to the Pharma Industry and the Scientists could work in peace.
**Life is too short to be serious**
Martin,
Is all of the irrational hatred you receive as a result of drawing attention to how the medical industry reconciles drug patents and generics with the FDA worth it? People who read past "ZOMG PRICE HIKE" learned that the FDA makes the process to genericize drugs like Daraprim harder than it should be. The idea being that perhaps if the FDA wasn't so obstructionist the market on Daraprim would never have been cornered in the first place.
Follow-up: What's it like to be so based?
What you did makes me want to bash your skull in. Whether it was lawful or not, whether it adheres to capitalist principles or not, it takes QUITE an amount of egoism and delusions of grandeur to pull that off without losing sleep.
So my question is this: If you think basic human ethics don't apply to you, why should I not come over there, kick your teeth to the curb and take from you whatever I damn well please?
Y'mean that one drug that absolutely ravages the body of it's users? The drug that no other pharmaceutical company (bar Shkreli's) had bothered to pump R&D into finding a better alternative to because it wasn't worth their time? The drug that's offered at an incredibly low cost to individuals and it's price hike almost entirely impacted large hospitals and insurance companies instead? The drug that, because of the price hike, has received more publicity in the space of a week than it had throughout it's entire existence, leading to an increase in it's prescribed use, thus helping to fund even more research into superior improvements and alternatives?
Yeah, Shkreli is an absolute monster for bleeding insurance companies of their horded wealth and using it to fund development for drugs no other company seems to care about because the current body-destroying, energy-sapping, will-barely-do-it's-job medications are "good enough".
There are plenty of reasons to dislike Shkreli, please do your research and pick a legitimate one instead of the ridiculous hate-mongering strawman that the media has thrown around.
Emacs or vi, you excrement-coated human enema nozzle?
That is all.
There's no fixing sociopaths. It is an underlying neurological condition that leads a person to have no empathy and be highly narcissistic. In general, the only thing that keeps sociopaths in line is to demonstrate to them that behaving properly is in their best interests. But unfortunately, modern finance at least temporarily rewards sociopaths, because they tend to be charismatic, make grand claims and even grander plans, and by the time anyone figures out that the sociopath was full of shit and saying whatever it took to get what they wanted, the company is already been damaged, key employees have already left (usually after a lot of bullying or worse by the sociopath).
It's largely why I feel anyone diagnoses as a sociopath should be banned from any position of authority; whether that be a manager, a police officer, judge, or politician.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Here's my question:
Mr. Sckreli, below is the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, a psychological tool for evaluating people for psychopathy. Please rate yourself on each trait on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 meaning "I do not exhibit this trait at all" and 10 meaning "I fully exhibit this trait".
1. GLIB and SUPERFICIAL CHARM
2. GRANDIOSE SELF-WORTH
3. SEEK STIMULATION or PRONE TO BOREDOM
4. PATHOLOGICAL LYING
5. CONNING AND MANIPULATIVENESS
6. LACK OF REMORSE OR GUILT
7. SHALLOW AFFECT
8. CALLOUSNESS and LACK OF EMPATHY
9. PARASITIC LIFESTYLE
10. POOR BEHAVIORAL CONTROLS
11. PROMISCUOUS SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
12. EARLY BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS
13. LACK OF REALISTIC, LONG-TERM GOALS
14. IMPULSIVITY
15. IRRESPONSIBILITY
16. FAILURE TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR OWN ACTIONS
17. MANY SHORT-TERM MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS
18. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
19. REVOCATION OF CONDITION RELEASE
20. CRIMINAL VERSATILITY
The absolute asshurt in this article is hilarious. Actual questions getting modded as troll, crying and screaming and "lol kill urself!" getting modded to +5.
Crying and screaming to not give him attention, yet that is exactly what you're doing by crying and screaming about it.