Bayer infects thousands of kids with AIDS
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They should lock them up, and then give them a migraine for life, but the only cure for it would be to blow some AIDS infected cellmates named Bubba.
"Bayer division Cutter Biological continued selling old stocks of the medicine for more than a year after it introduced a version in February 1984 that was heat-treated to kill HIV, according to documents obtained by the Times."
"As a result, thousands of hemophiliacs became infected with HIV. Bayer and three other companies that made the concentrate have paid about $600 million to settle more than 15 years of lawsuits accusing them of making a dangerous product, the newspaper said."
Bayer Sold HIV-Risky Meds, Says Can't Judge Mid 80s Actions By 2003 Standards And Knowledge - CBS News
So, that video is definately misleading. Early 80s, and there was a risk of HIV, not like this was a guarantee your going to get it.
Sure it sucks, but spend your outrage on the companies that helped out the Nazis in WWII or the lazy assess in the FBI and Whitehouse who couldn't be bothered to take bin Laden seriously before September 11th. Edit: Bayer was one of these companies, my bad. Sure fuck them
"As a result, thousands of hemophiliacs became infected with HIV. Bayer and three other companies that made the concentrate have paid about $600 million to settle more than 15 years of lawsuits accusing them of making a dangerous product, the newspaper said."
Bayer Sold HIV-Risky Meds, Says Can't Judge Mid 80s Actions By 2003 Standards And Knowledge - CBS News
So, that video is definately misleading. Early 80s, and there was a risk of HIV, not like this was a guarantee your going to get it.
Sure it sucks, but spend your outrage on the companies that helped out the Nazis in WWII or the lazy assess in the FBI and Whitehouse who couldn't be bothered to take bin Laden seriously before September 11th. Edit: Bayer was one of these companies, my bad. Sure fuck them
Bayer actually ran a concentration camp during WWII
A story from one of the people in this camp:
For years an Auschwitz survivor has tried to win compensation from the pharmaceutical giant that carried out medical experiments on her. Now living in Dundee, she tells her story in a BBC documentary.
Zoe Polanska Palmer never imagined she would survive Dr Mengele's experiments in Auschwitz.
Nor did her German doctors. Like thousands of other children, she was destined to be gassed once her usefulness to Nazi science had ceased.
During her two years at the camp, 13-year-old Zoe was forced to take tablets and pills as part of a series of pharmacological experiments, believed to be part of early birth control tests.
But Zoe refused to die. Saved by a Russian doctor who evacuated her to Dachau, she recovered and eventually settled in Scotland.
Now in her early 70s, she has been fighting for compensation and an apology from the German drug manufacturer, Bayer.
"I still find it difficult to take aspirin," she says. "I remember one of the SS doctors holding my jaw open and forcing pills down my throat. I'm still very wary of men wearing white coats."
Eyewitness testimonies held in the Auschwitz camp archive claim the doctor who force-fed her pills worked for the pharmaceutical company Bayer when it was part of the IG Farben conglomerate.
His name was Dr Victor Capesius. It's a name that Zoe can never forget.
He helped Dr Mengele to conduct genetic experiments, usually on children, and also selected thousands of prisoners at the huge death camp, choosing those who might be useful and sending the rest to an immediate death with a flick of his finger.
Dr Capesius was tried in Frankfurt for war crimes in 1963 and served time in prison.
Another longtime Bayer employee, Helmut Vetter, also worked as a SS doctor at Auschwitz. He was involved in the testing of experimental vaccines and medicines on inmates and after the war he was executed for administering fatal injections.
A story from one of the people in this camp:
For years an Auschwitz survivor has tried to win compensation from the pharmaceutical giant that carried out medical experiments on her. Now living in Dundee, she tells her story in a BBC documentary.
Zoe Polanska Palmer never imagined she would survive Dr Mengele's experiments in Auschwitz.
Nor did her German doctors. Like thousands of other children, she was destined to be gassed once her usefulness to Nazi science had ceased.
During her two years at the camp, 13-year-old Zoe was forced to take tablets and pills as part of a series of pharmacological experiments, believed to be part of early birth control tests.
But Zoe refused to die. Saved by a Russian doctor who evacuated her to Dachau, she recovered and eventually settled in Scotland.
Now in her early 70s, she has been fighting for compensation and an apology from the German drug manufacturer, Bayer.
"I still find it difficult to take aspirin," she says. "I remember one of the SS doctors holding my jaw open and forcing pills down my throat. I'm still very wary of men wearing white coats."
Eyewitness testimonies held in the Auschwitz camp archive claim the doctor who force-fed her pills worked for the pharmaceutical company Bayer when it was part of the IG Farben conglomerate.
His name was Dr Victor Capesius. It's a name that Zoe can never forget.
He helped Dr Mengele to conduct genetic experiments, usually on children, and also selected thousands of prisoners at the huge death camp, choosing those who might be useful and sending the rest to an immediate death with a flick of his finger.
Dr Capesius was tried in Frankfurt for war crimes in 1963 and served time in prison.
Another longtime Bayer employee, Helmut Vetter, also worked as a SS doctor at Auschwitz. He was involved in the testing of experimental vaccines and medicines on inmates and after the war he was executed for administering fatal injections.
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