"The Worst Person in the World -- Bayer CEO Marjin Dekkers"

[phantom power]

Natco Pharma Ltd. (NTCPH) applied directly to India’s patents office and was awarded the nation’s first compulsory license in March 2012 to make a copy of Bayer’s Nexavar cancer drug at a 97 percent discount to the original product. In March last year, Bayer lost its bid to stop Natco from making the generic drug and is appealing the decision at the Mumbai High Court.

Bayer Chief Executive Officer Marijn Dekkers called the compulsory license “essentially theft.”

“We did not develop this medicine for Indians,” Dekkers said Dec. 3. “We developed it for western patients who can afford it.”

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2014/01/the-worst-person-in-the-world-5

[joeybee12]

1. Hey, he gets points for honesty!

Admitting why they're in the business.

Anyway, he's an asshole.

[Xyzse]

2. That's true...

[phantom power]

3. Most conservative ideas are repugnant when stated honestly.

Which is why they're become so very, very, very good at all the various arts of obfuscation, misdirection, topic-switching, dog-whistling and lying.

[stillwaiting]

21. You can say that again.

And again and again and again until a majority of people finally understand that this is true.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Conservatives are getting Abercombied.

But, we like it better this way because it removes the need to guess.

[WhiteTara]

7. These guys are so arrogant that they don't

realize that other people think they are monsters. The Barilla guy, the Bayer guy, the BP guy, the Freedom Industries guy, and on and on.

[Cooley Hurd]

4. Bayer's sordid history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer#Nazi_chairman

In 1956 Fritz ter Meer became chairman of Bayer's supervisory board. He was convicted at the Nuremberg trials for his part in carrying out experiments on human subjects at Auschwitz. He was found "guilty of count two, plunder and spoliation, and count three, slavery and mass murder" and sentenced to seven years imprisonment and served five years.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

6. Good thing he was not caught with any pot on him. He would have done hard time!

[SunSeeker]

15. LOL nt

[fasttense]

8. He was found guilty of slavery and mass murder

and he was functioning legally under German law in a capitalist economy.

[Bandit]

10. Convicted of slavery and mass murder and sentenced to seven years

Served five years. Too bad he didn't have a joint on him. He might have received life..

[AtheistCrusader]

9. Daaaaaaaamn

That's gonna come up during the shareholder meeting.

[EC]

11. He said that out loud?

Wow...glad to hear about the medicine though.

[sulphurdunn]

12. Does anyone have a patent

on Soylent Green yet? Just asking.

[weissmam]

13. that should go over well , good lucj explaining that one

[Helen Borg]

14. This is were Governments

Need to kick in and use their muscle! Corporations are in the business for profit. Profit does not care if people die or not.

[Jack Rabbit]

16. Dekkers must have read Atlas Shrugged as a teenager

He sounds like another human soul twisted out of shape by Ayn Rand.

[SunSeeker]

17. The individual researchers who developed the drug are motivated by helping humanity.

It is their corporate employer, Bayer, who only wants to make money. Bayer exploits the work of their researchers to make money, profits they do not share with those researchers.

If those researchers had the option of doing their work for government or nonprofits for the same salary, they would jump at the chance.

[Adrahil]

18. While that's true to a certain extent....

... top scientific and engineering expect to be paid (and rather well) for their work. That money has to come from somewhere. I personally would like to see more of such research done directly by government labs, or by private labs with government grants, so you and I certainly agree on that point. The government would own the patents, and would license the patents to domestic companies for production, and would be free to license products for foreign production at whatever rates are appropriate (so, low, or even free to some nations).

[SunSeeker]

20. Exactly right. For profit medicine is immoral. nt

[madokie]

19. Yup, no doubt

[Hepburn]

22. Dear Marijn Dekkers:

FUCK YOU

Sincerely,

Hepburn who recently lost someone to cancer

[hunter]

23. Why does he care?

If Indians can't afford his company's meds, they'll just die. Dead people will never buy Bayer products.

The pharmaceutical giants spend more on marketing, legal, and political lobbying stuff than they do on actual research. That's where they went wrong.

Researchers ought to enjoy a very comfortable living and acclaim for creating wonderful new medicines. Researchers ought to be paid well for their research even when it does not pan out. But marketing, legal, and political people should never become become uber-wealthy in the process, they should never be more than ancillary staff.

[47of74]

24. I hope this is true.

I hope this is true;

Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you. (James 5:1-6)