This is Martin Shkreli, 32. Former hedge fund manager, current pharmaceutical businessman, and all around fucknut. He's the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, which just purchased the drug Daraprim. Daraprim is used for treating toxoplasmosis, an "opportunistic parasitic infection that can cause serious or even life-threatening problems" in infants and people with AIDS, cancer, and other folks with compromised immune systems. People need this medication to live. Remember now that Mr. Shkreli is a fucknut.

TIL Martin Shkreli snorts ashes of cremated Shiba Inu puppies that died of canine GM1 gangliosidosis off his Once Upon a Time in Shaolin album

This fucknut raised the cost of this drug from $13.50 per pill to $750 per pill. SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS PER PILL.

He says he shouldn't face criticism for this obvious price gouging of the desperate because the extra funds will go back into research of this drug. He's full of shit. Actual researchers say there is very little research to be done on this particular drug, and he's pulled this shit before: In 2011 he bought another drug company and raised the prices of their old mainstay drugs, fucked over a ton of people, and used the money to pay back investors he fucked over when he was a hedge fund manager. And now that drug company's board is suing him for it.

So people should die because this fucknut sucks at life?

SOURCES:
Retrophin, Inc. Sues Shkreli: http://archive.fast-edgar.com//20150817/A522K22EZZ2R8JZ222ZG2ZXRMTBIEZ22N27Q/
Story Article 1 (RawStory): http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/ex-hedge-funder-buys-rights-aids-drug-and-raises-price-from-13-50-to-750-per-pill/
Story Article 2 (NYTimes): http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/business/a-huge-overnight-increase-in-a-drugs-price-raises-protests.html

FP edit: y'all are clearly angry about this as I am. That's a reasonable response to this kind of fucknuttery. But it's not reasonable to threaten violence against him or anyone. And it's stupid to claim "rhetorical" when you talk about methods and plans and justify them, regardless of whether or not you're serious. That turns a reasonable anger that can become something constructive into something very ugly instead. This is one guy who is a fucknut. The problem with the system has a face now, but the problem is still the system that exploits sick people. Will you take action against the fuck Nut or the fuck Tree? My efforts will go toward ending Big Pharma's (and every lobby's) corrupting influence in politics which pays for deregulation against the will of the people via http://www.wolf-pac.com. Your solution may be different. Whatever it is, your energy is probably better spent there than fantasizing about violence here.

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