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Comment count is 19
xenocide - 2006-04-04

Holy shit.


Alex - 2006-04-04

that is fucking terrifying


dueserpenti - 2006-04-05

Well, I'm never buying from Bayer again.


SharoKham - 2006-04-05

Why aren't people being crucified over this? Jesus fucking fuck.


Simian - 2006-04-05

Why aren't Bayer executives being kidnapped and pumped full of HIV-infected blood over this?


I am Damo Suzuki - 2006-04-09

legal mumbo jumbo. Ugh, disgusting.


Xiphias - 2006-04-10

thankfully this video brought them all to justice and everything is ok now


Stopheles - 2006-04-10

Gonna post this on Myspace and send it out elsewhere...and sure as hell won't buy from them...


Mayberry Pancakes - 2006-04-16

Holy shit. I have nothing else to say. Just...holy shit.


blackbetta - 2006-05-22

"Rat of the Week" seems far too kind a title.


judobutterfly - 2006-07-06

Too late, this happened in the 80's. We need to burn people alive bacause of this.


sudan no1 - 2006-11-02

How come this is the first and only time I have heard of this????


Bone_Vulture - 2006-11-30

Wow wow wow a corporate building turned into an Aspirin box! Huh, AIDS?


BAC - 2007-03-26

more people die from aspirin every then from all other illicit drugs combined.


tamago - 2007-06-01

No matter how many times I see this, it still makes my blood boil. My boycott of Bayer continues to this day.


Rodents of Unusual Size - 2007-07-25

See, I don't normally like the idea of the death penalty, but in this case I wouldn't mind a few guillotines being built around Bayer.


Pie Boy - 2007-08-01

Holy fucking crazy goddamn monkey-shit son of a bitch. That's insane.


fluffy - 2007-12-02

The real story is way more complicated and this news report is of course completely biased. Do a Google search on "Bayer HIV drug" to get somewhat more balanced coverage... basically they were making a hemophilia drug long before HIV was even known about, and some of their donor blood supply was tainted with said virus. As soon as they were aware of the problem they began heat-treating the drug to kill the virus, and they have paid out hundreds of millions of dollars to patients who became infected as a result of the drug.

The third-world sales of the drugs are easy to claim as being evil in retrospect, but at the time it wasn't even fully-established that HIV and AIDS were even linked.

It was a giant catastrophe, but more as an "ignorance costs lives" thing than a "megacorporations are evil and care more about profits than human lives" thing.


petep - 2008-02-19

I'm outraged by the same things that outrage Joe Scarborough??!


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