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I have never heard this perspective. What are some examples of where he has been mischaracterized?

All pharma companies price gouge. His company was giving a lot of the drug away for free to people who couldn't afford it, and insurance companies were paying the higher cost in other cases. Shkreli was singled out because he's addicted to getting attention on the internet so he put it on himself, and he has an easy to make fun of physical appearance.

If you actually watch his livestreams and listen to what he has to say instead of reading legacy media, you'd get a different perspective on him.

> All pharma companies price gouge.

Perhaps, but only Shkreli decided to 10× his drug prices overnight. Or, as one person put it, "[Shkreli] is to a research-based company like a loan shark to a legitimate bank"

The patent had expired on the drug four decades prior and no other pharmaceutical bothered to try and make it available.

We really got the best outcome out of this stunt. He exposed real weaknesses in what we're doing and also the FDA process to market generics and instead of doing anything to fix it outside of the context of this one drug, we shot the messenger.

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