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Nestle? Spectrum? Some random company nobody knows about?

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[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 216 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] andy_wijaya_med@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago
[-] CorInABox@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

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 Withdrawn from the US market before the Netflix documentary released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

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I fixed my post

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

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˜‰

[-] dedale@kbin.social 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.

[-] andrew@midwest.social 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.

[-] tryagain@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Jesus. Straight to the top

[-] jrs100000@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also inventing heroin and marketing it as cough medicine.

[-] Ranessin@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] nevernevermore@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Does it work as cough medicine at all?

[-] 999@kbin.social 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.

[-] jrs100000@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
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