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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.
How about you don't give the self important asshole more time in the public eye instead?
Dear Mr. Shkreli, if you got rectal cancer, would it affect your entire body?
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
Follow-up question: Were you born that way or did you have to work at it?
Why are you encouraging this talentless, odious shit with this sort of coverage?
Better known as “Pharmabro” or let’s increase costs of old meds by 5000%.
This a new low, /. Not even offering to bail out 4chan should elevate this piece of garbage to “stuff that matters.”
My only question would be, “Why haven’t you stopped breathing my oxygen yet?”
I won't have anything to do with that guy, and shame on Slashdot for providing a platform to him.
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
You! Yes, you! You there, about the press the "Reply" button - think about what you're doing.
Chances are you want to ask Martin Shkreli why he's such an utterly foul piece of human excrement - of course you do, it's what we're all thinking - but what will it achieve? I'm happy to see that the users of Slashdot have already asked this question several times, so that ground has been covered.
So what can you do? My suggestion is: nothing. Don't hit Reply. Don't ask a question. Shkreli didn't get to be King of the Douchebags by having a thin skin, but if anything's going to wound him... it's nothing. No responses. No-one caring. No-one even expressing their disdain for him.
So how about it? Just close the tab, and move on. Do more for the good of humanity than Martin Shkreli ever will simply by sitting on your arse and doing nothing. It's the right thing to (not) do.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
How does it feel to be so hated that even Donald Trump won't accept your endorsement (though he's fine with David Duke and Vladimir Putin endorsing him)?
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Why are you giving this worthless piece of shit the time of day?
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
What has this person done of note, other than charge lots of money for a product? I imagine some here will try to be civil, and ask him a serious question, but why? He is not a remarkable person, so please do not treat him as such. I know, I know, everyone is interesting in their own way, but then, we might as well interview a stomped cockroach on Slashdot next.
I think a more pertinent question would be "When did you receive your diagnosis as a sociopath, and why did you choose financial scams as opposed to preying on young women between the ages of 18 and 30 and sexualy torturing them, murdering them and then taunting their relatives via anonymous letters to th Duluth News Tribune?"
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
But it can be summed up with one:
"How much for you to kill yourself? Maybe if we all chip in, we could get rid of you."
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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?
Look, I agree that Martin Shkreli is an execrable worm, but I think putting a bounty on him is a little extreme.
But just for the record, how much would this bounty be? Asking for a friend.
You are welcome on my lawn.
What if all of Slashdot refused to ask this guy any serious questions?
I think we should refuse...he priced-gouged lifesaving medicines...he's not some fun trickster he's a villain pure and simple.
I think what he did should be criminal.
Let's ask him things like, "When do you think you'll finally go to jail?"
or, "Have you been examined by a mental health professional for narcissistic personality disorder?"
Thank you Dave Raggett
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?
n/t
I posted an honest question in a non-inflammatory way, and it's already gotten downvoted, but I'm holding out hope.
I've seen a lot of crazed capitalists like himself have a somewhat consistent internal world view so I'm curious as to how he thinks his entire pricing situation is *supposed* to work. Clearly he fucked over people who were totally powerless but did he think the free market meant they could actually do something about it?
Basically: Does he think everybody is as unethical as him, and hence assumes we're all playing the game the same way he is?
If this is the type of stunts you plan on pulling with your new management then It may be time to delete my account.
Why would you think we care what that waste of oxygen has to say?
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
Emacs or vi, you excrement-coated human enema nozzle?
That is all.
All this anger, but my understand of him price gouging, is that he was gouging the government and the insurance companies. Can anyone link actual research that shows that actual american humans either A) went without medicine or B) were refused the free medicines his company offered to the patients who were unable to procure the medicine through their insurance company?
This kid is made out to be a terrible human, because of his douchbaggery towards the government, and we hate him WHY?!
Here is what I recommend you tell Mr. Shkreli:
"We are sorry, Mr. Shkreli, but an overwhelming number of our readers have asked us to cancel our planned question-and-answer session with you. Accordingly, we have decided not to submit any questions to you. You can read the discussion that lead to this decision here."
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.
(Replying O/T to post this as close to the top as possible)
To help express that Slashdot should not go forward with this interview, tag the article "cancel" until it's the top tag. Thank you and don't reply with a question for the Q&A.
Here's how you can break the cancellation to him.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
I don't know the Bill Gates you're referring to. The one I know is an asshole, with an ego on par with Ellison's. But yeah, he helps people
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
Here,
let me save us all the trouble:
Question 1: You've become an overnight household name as a consequence of a manufactured controversy. Since then, you've managed to grow a cult-following by engaging the controversy rather than hiding from the attention. Do you enjoy your new celebrity status enough to justify the headaches the media attention has brought you?
"On the advice of counsel I invoke my 5th amendment privilege against self incrimination and respectfully decline to answer your question."
Question 2: Prescription drug prices don't seem to follow the same price trends as most other consumer commodities. Can you cast some insight into the process of pricing a prescription medication? Do you have any thoughts on the fairness of the perception that drug prices are excessively volatile? Is this perception deserved? In either case, what are some of the underlying causes behind prescription drug price volatility?
"On the advice of counsel I invoke my 5th amendment privilege against self incrimination and respectfully decline to answer your question."
Question 3: Do you believe the environment for pricing pharmaceuticals in the United States is optimal, or favorable to innovation and research that best benefits patients?
"On the advice of counsel I invoke my 5th amendment privilege against self incrimination and respectfully decline to answer your question."
Question 4: You've frequently expressed your desire to invest more money in researching new treatments and cures for diseases. What changes or reforms to the United States healthcare industry and relevant regulations would be most effective in maximizing health outcomes for patients?
"On the advice of counsel I invoke my 5th amendment privilege against self incrimination and respectfully decline to answer your question."
Question 5: What is the single most counterproductive aspect of the United States legal and regulatory structure surrounding health care and drug research?
"On the advice of counsel I invoke my 5th amendment privilege against self incrimination and respectfully decline to answer your question."
Question 6: In most colleges, the computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering departments are awash with student interest in these majors. Do you feel that the healthcare industry is suffering from a "brain drain" or talent-loss as a result of differences in perceived profitability and ROI for those education dollars? If so: do you expect the common desire to found a Silicon Valley "Unicorn" startup could be redirected to inspire those students to research treatments for diseases if the government changed its approach to healthcare regulations?
"On the advice of counsel I invoke my 5th amendment privilege against self incrimination and respectfully decline to answer your question."
Question 7: In my biology class, I learned that there are many sponges in the mediterranean which appeared to offer opportunities to research new antibiotics. The academic who was researching these sponges lamented about a lack of interest from the pharmaceutical industry in researching new antibiotics because the ones we had now worked "well enough". When I encounter news stories like this: http://www.newsweek.com/2016/0... I'm left with some level of dissonance between two anecdotes which seem impossible to reconcile. Clearly, victims of war are not especially well-equipped to vote with their dollars, but this alleged lack of interest in researching new antibiotics seems endemic of a more systemic issue. Do you believe the search for new antibiotics deserves more research funding than they currently receive? Is there a hype-gap between the threat of antibiotic resistance being portrayed in the media and the risk antibiotic resistance actually poses? Do you believe that antibiotic research funding reflects an appropriate priority level relative to the ris
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.
I'm always listening. But there are actually some really good questions here if you wade through the outrage and butt hurt. He'll probably give some interesting answers too. We won't post the interview if he refuses to answer some of the more pointed questions about his character or past perceived transgressions.
1. Mr. Shkreli, how do you ethically justify to yourself a greater than 5000% price hike on medicines that are literally saving peoples lives?
2. To Slashdot's editors: how do you ethically justify giving this scumbag free screen time like this?
It just seems like you're alienating a large part of Slashdot by even giving the guy the time of day.