What's the worst company ever. Period.

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Nestle? Spectrum? Some random company nobody knows about?

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Bayer. They knowingly sold HIV infected blood to Latin America after the blood was rejected in Europe. This still blows my mind. Some corporate waste of oxygen actually decided to do this. It wasn't an accident. That guy needs to get stabbed with thousands ten fucking thousand of AIDS needles.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/23/aids.suzannegoldenberg

And the Essure permanent birth control device, causing persistent pain, bleeding and other health problems to thousands of women. Withdrawn from the US market before the Netflix documentary released

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/25/the-bleeding-edge-netflix-documentary-medical-devices

'moral issues above profit' .. yeah, I can't believe that of all things is an issue

They also bought Monsanto and, if anything, ramped up the evil from THAT murderous shitshow!

Why am I suddenly thinking about Norm Macdonald and Hitler? 😉

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Did a little bit of digging on that one, before being bought by Bayer, the Cutter biological division was responsible for another pharmaceutical disaster. They accidentally (?) sold 120 000 doses of polio vaccines containing the live polio virus.

They also acquired and still run the business previously done by Monsanto known for things like agent orange and eliminating corn biodiversity. Their legal department is also infamous for bankrupting small farmers.

Also inventing heroin and marketing it as cough medicine.

Lots of drugs started out as medicine. And heroin is a great medicine, still used in this sense today.

Does it work as cough medicine at all?

As a kid I had really bad asthma, which led to a lot of chest congestion. Had codeine around for when it got bad. Worked quite nicely, indeed.

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