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[โ€“] [email protected] 208 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Bayer. They knowingly sold HIV infected blood to Latin America after the blood was rejected in Europe. This still blows my mind. Some corporate waste of oxygen actually decided to do this. It wasn't an accident. That guy needs to get stabbed with ~~thousands~~ ten fucking thousand ~~of~~ AIDS needles.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/23/aids.suzannegoldenberg

[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And the Essure permanent birth control device, causing persistent pain, bleeding and other health problems to thousands of women. Withdrawn from the US market before the Netflix documentary released

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/25/the-bleeding-edge-netflix-documentary-medical-devices

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I fixed my post

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

'moral issues above profit' .. yeah, I can't believe that of all things is an issue

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They also bought Monsanto and, if anything, ramped up the evil from THAT murderous shitshow!

Why am I suddenly thinking about Norm Macdonald and Hitler? ๐Ÿ˜‰

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Did a little bit of digging on that one, before being bought by Bayer, the Cutter biological division was responsible for another pharmaceutical disaster. They accidentally (?) sold 120 000 doses of polio vaccines containing the live polio virus.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

They also acquired and still run the business previously done by Monsanto known for things like agent orange and eliminating corn biodiversity. Their legal department is also infamous for bankrupting small farmers.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Jesus. Straight to the top

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Also inventing heroin and marketing it as cough medicine.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Lots of drugs started out as medicine. And heroin is a great medicine, still used in this sense today.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does it work as cough medicine at all?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

As a kid I had really bad asthma, which led to a lot of chest congestion. Had codeine around for when it got bad. Worked quite nicely, indeed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] bernieecclestoned 2 points 1 year ago

Not just Bayer

In 1981 concern was growing over an unidentified infectious disease associated with immune system collapse that would later become known as AIDS. In the U.S. it was found mostly in homosexual men and intravenous drug users, while in France doctors were finding it in a more diverse group of patients.[4] On July 16, 1982, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that three hemophiliacs had acquired the disease.[3]

Epidemiologists started to believe that the disease was being spread through blood products, with grave implications for hemophiliacs who had routinely injected themselves with concentrate made from large pools of donated plasma, much of which was collected by commercial paid-donor plasmapheresis prior to routine HIV testing, often in U.S. cities that had large numbers of homosexuals and intravenous drug users and in some U.S. prisons and underdeveloped countries during the four or five years of the late 1970s through early 1980s before AIDS was even heard of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_haemophilia_blood_products