‘Pharma bro’ Shkreli Gets ‘Schooled by a Real F*cking Doctor’ During Disastrous Reddit Interview

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http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/pharma-bro-martin-shkreli-gets-schooled-by-a-real-fcking-doctor-during-disastrous-reddit-interview

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The pharmaceutical company CEO got absolutely destroyed by a physician who exposed his limited understanding of how the drugs he sells actually work.

“Medically speaking I haven’t yet heard of why your drug’s worth $749 more than my pyrimethamine,” said a Reddit user identified himself or herself as Anandya, a doctor who works for a charity. “Does it improve on the nausea, vomiting and (diarrhea)? Does it have a folate sparing effect? Can it be used in pregnant women and in epileptics?”

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“The mechanism of the drug is folate inhibition,” Anandya reminded the CEO, adding that what Shkreli had proposed might not even be scientifically possible.

“The entire mechanism of the drug is to stop the production of folic acid in the first place and the bulk of its side effects are tied up with that,” Anandya said. “It’s kind of counter-intuitive to say that you are going to solve this problem when it’s not a problem as much as the whole raison d’etre of the drug. This I find is the main problem with your plan. That the solution is not worth $749.”

“One cannot suggest such a monsterous increase in the price of a drug which by your own admission does nothing better while telling me your plan is to (because this is the only way it would work) create an entirely new drug not related to pyrimethamine at all because it would require a new structure,” the self-described phsycican continued. “Which in turn would give you a big hassle since you would require testing and FDA approval from scratch anyway. I think your plan is flawed.”

Other Reddit users stood back and applauded in awe, saying that’s what happens when “overblown salespeople run into people who actually know what they’re talking about.”

“Dude you just got schooled by a real f*cking doctor,” said Reddit user ixora7. “Go f*ck yourself with your pills.”

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[shenmue]

1. Ta daa!

[niyad]

2. somebody needs to school him in being a decent human being. may he receive everything he deserves.

[houston_radical]

9. THAT'S the problem!!

You see, corporations ARE people (human beings), and they live exclusively for profit - nothing else
and they say that sarcasm is not a replacement for wit ....

[3catwoman3]

11. "Sarchasm" -

The gap between biting wit and the person to stupid to get it. One of my favorite neologisms.

[annabanana]

12. HURRAH!

I love that and will use it!

[3catwoman3]

15. My other favorite is...

..."ignoranus" - someone who is both stupid and an a$$h*le.

I do wish I had thought these up myself, but I didn't.

[jtuck004]

3. When I tell fairly tales to kids about monsters that will hurt them, I use names like Shkreli, Trump

Fiorina.

Maybe they will remember some day.

[3catwoman3]

10. Ooohh - very inventive. I really like it

How about Trumplestiltskin?

[jtuck004]

13. I use their real names, because I want them to know these are the real, not imaginary, monsters.

I still tell them the Grimm's Bros stories - might as well introduce them early to blood and guts - but I point out that these are fairy tales, so nothing but imagination.

But when I tell them about the trump that will eat your liver, or the carson that takes little kids in to rooms and makes them cry, I can show them those monsters on tv, and how they monsters can take on a human shape.

Once, one of them called Evillock's hair a wardrobe malfunction. I had a very hard time keeping a straight face. Kids are so honest, before we teach them to be otherwise.

[Vincardog]

18. Add Ayn Rand

[Warren DeMontague]

16. My kid was a toddler during the Bush years.

He literally thought the guy's name was "Doofus"

[jtuck004]

17. My wife just asked me what was so funny. rofl. n/t

[PatSeg]

4. Profit and Medicine

A terrible combination.

[malaise]

5. Beautifuggingful

[djean111]

6. The Reddit AMA's are really good.

That is how Reddit became acquainted with Bernie. Off the cuff, unscripted.
There is a very nice archive of AMA's.

[geardaddy]

7. Backpfeifengesicht

[blackspade]

8. V V V <This> V V V

“Dude you just got schooled by a real f*cking doctor,” said Reddit user ixora7. “Go f*ck yourself with your pills.”

[alcibiades_mystery]

14. Next, Shkreli will develop a serotonin reuptake inhibitor that doesn't inhibit serotonin reuptake

Cost to you, one million dollars...

[ThoughtCriminal]

19. “Go f*ck yourself with your pills.”

[sub.theory]

21. Props to that doctor

I appreciate her calling out this sociopath. We've got to put a stop to this kind of extortion in healthcare. Medicine is not like other industries, and the free market doesn't work when lifesaving therapies are under monopoly control. We must have Federal regulation of costs.