tl;dw: Johnson and Johnson is using a legal loophole to extend a patent on a life-saving drug, preventing generics from being made. Scientists estimate this will lead to 6 million more people dying of tuberculosis over the next four years, because they cannot afford the high-priced name-brand drug.
Its actually fucking gnarly as hell that somehow J&J hasn’t be more harshly published for all the heinous shit they’ve done over the years to people, especially babies. They legit had asbestos in their baby powder and continued to sell it after acknowledging that and sold it to third world countries anyways that hadn’t banned the talc powder yet.
They fucking put cyanide in their asprin as well. There is a handful of other shit but it blows me away that they’re still talked about like a good brand. Fuck J&J
So many companies that have caused like… world war numbers of deaths and disfigurement are still allowed to exist after the fact and it’s disgusting. DuPont, Exxon and other oil related business, tobacco companies, asbestos companies, lead, the meat industry, the list goes on.
The truly bleak way to look at this is to just ponder how many people have died over the entirety of the original patent.
Being able to patent medicine is fucking criminal in and of itself end of story.
Edit: Looks like the original patent for bedaquiline was from 2011. Using the same math but rounding down leaves it at like 11 million deaths.
How many fucking private holocausts have these companies created?
Who would’ve thought that the company that knew and hid info about asbestos in their baby powders for decades so they could dominate the market unimpeded could be so monstrous.
Fuck Johnson & Johnson
And fuck John “[Anne Frank] just died of illness like most people” Green too
And fuck John “[Anne Frank] just died of illness like most people” Green too
Can you elaborate on this? I don’t know the context
Honestly, it sounds like John got “canceled” for something his character said in an inner monologue in a fictional book. In my opinion, it’s okay to write characters that are immoral and do immoral things. Just because a character says or does something immoral, that doesn’t mean the author is a bad person, but that’s just my take.
