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.

Comments

Or not.

[Anonymous Coward]

How about you don't give the self important asshole more time in the public eye instead?

So...

[Kierthos]

Dear Mr. Shkreli, if you got rectal cancer, would it affect your entire body?

Re:So...

[AnalogDiehard]

Dear Mr. Shkreli, if you got rectal cancer, would it affect your entire body?

I think it's a safe bet that if Shkreli had an asshole transplant, that the asshole would reject him.

Why are you such a douche?

[JoeyRox]

Follow-up question: Were you born that way or did you have to work at it?

Question for the editors

[Anonymous Coward]

Why are you encouraging this talentless, odious shit with this sort of coverage?

Re:Question for the editors

[Opportunist]

Yes, of course he can. Mostly by not understanding what the hell should be wrong with anything he did.

I've worked with psychopaths before. They honestly don't get why you're outraged when they pull the shit they do.

Re:Question for the editors

[Bing Tsher E]

You miss the point entirely.

This isn't the same society that made Kardashian a household name.

This is Slashdot. We have hope of being something better.

Re:Question for the editors

[stabiesoft]

And yet /. is doing exactly the same thing as the rest of society by giving this crap hole a voice. Bury him.

Re:Question for the editors

[dslauson]

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

AKA...

[Aaden42]

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?”

No.

[Stephen Gilbert]

I won't have anything to do with that guy, and shame on Slashdot for providing a platform to him.

STOP! THINK!

[wonkey_monkey]

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.

Re:STOP! THINK!

[geekmux]

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.

Excellent advice. And just to remind everyone, this tactic is not solely reserved for the King here.

This will work for any annoying-as-fuck talentless narcissist prancing about on social media. The only way to make them disappear is to starve them of the very food they need to survive, which is attention.

What the fuck Slashdot?

[Chas]

Why are you giving this worthless piece of shit the time of day?

Re:When and why

[MightyMartian]

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?"

Let's not

[globaljustin]

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?"

Is it time?

[Holi]

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?

Tag article "CANCEL"

[GameboyRMH]

(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.

This is gold

[ArylAkamov]

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.