Martin Shkreli Goes On A Predictable Twitter Rant After Those Australian Kids Replicated His Drug
Yesterday we bought you the news that some Australian teenagers had replicated Martin Shkreli’s $750 drug Daraprim for a measly $20, and we expected the most hated man in America to be pretty angry about it. He didn’t let us down.
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Whilst the discovery of these kids isn’t going to actively affect Shkreli because his company is the sole provider of the drug in the United States thanks to a legal loophole, this didn’t mean he wasn’t going to get pissed off about it. After a period of silence whilst he came up with his response, he went on the following rant, targeting the press, the clock kid Ahmed Mohamed and even Donald Trump.
Try and keep up:
These kids who 'made Daraprim' reminds me of Ahmed who 'made the clock'. Dumb journalists want a feel good story.
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) December 1, 2016
These kids who 'made Daraprim' reminds me of Ahmed who 'made the clock'. Dumb journalists want a feel good story.
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) December 1, 2016
i'm a grown ass man & want to introduce these kids to the concept that average ANDA takes 5 years & costs $5m. so they have $4,999,980 to go https://t.co/vUsV6DxFVB
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) December 1, 2016
No one is dragging the kids. I was a young scientist once, too. that is your liberal imagination. https://t.co/cLDjS3rQdJ
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) December 1, 2016
I'm "dragging" the adults, like you, who are using them to extend an incorrect and misleading narrative. https://t.co/cLDjS3rQdJ
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) December 1, 2016
And never, ever compare your cook game to mine. Highest yield, best purity, most scale. I have the synthesis game on lock.
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) December 1, 2016
Never forget how Twitter promoted Ahmed and his clock. This is why Trump won. Stop lying all the time. @ABC @CNN https://t.co/cLDjS3rQdJ
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) December 1, 2016
Well, I suppose Shkreli does kind of have a point there as most publications did report it that in a way that would imply that the drug might be available for $20 at some point in the near future – although most of them did also note that it wouldn’t be possible anytime soon due to Turing’s legal ownership of it in North America. Therefore, I can kinda understand why he might get upset about people reporting it that way and underestimating just how good his product is in comparison to some teenagers from Australia.
However, I think he’s really missing the point. I don’t think those kids spent a year in the lab coming up with a cheaper alternative so that they could sell it – I mean they’re not really going to make any money doing that are they? – it was more to highlight how overpriced and greedy the American pharmaceutical market can be. Typical of Shkreli to completely miss that huh?
Remember when he got arrested? That was funny.
