# Fuck You, Martin Shkreli, you worthless, scheming sack of shit. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 17, 2015, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738 "2015-12-17T23:07:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/61 "2015-12-26T03:31:42Z")
More suspicious still is the listings for drugs that they have in the pipeline that are in clinical trials (according to Turing) but have no record on [clinicaltrials.gov](http://clinicaltrials.gov). ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/62 "2015-12-26T04:36:20Z")
> [@The Great Sun Jester](#): > > The guy reminds me of that Nevel character from iCarly. In looks and demeanor. Aha! That’s it exactly! "As federal agents led Shkreli to the courthouse, angry crowds flung handfuls of tapenade at his face. Shkreli paused at the top of the courthouse steps, turned to the crowd, and screamed ‘YOU’LL RUE THE DAY!! YOU’LL RUE IT!!!’ Carly Shay was not available for comment." ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/63 "2016-02-04T15:10:59Z")
[This douchebag is in the news today because he’s taking the 5th. > [@](#): > > Pharmaceutical chief Martin Shkreli refused to testify Thursday in an appearance before U.S. lawmakers who excoriated him over severe hikes for a drug sold by a company that he acquired. > > Shkreli, widely scorned for hiking the price of a long-established and potentially lifesaving drug by more than 5,000 percent, exercised his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when he went before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. ]([http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c7948f9d0b25466c8665b5c1807a96d0/lawmakers-anxious-hear-shkreli-hes-taking-5th](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c7948f9d0b25466c8665b5c1807a96d0/lawmakers-anxious-hear-shkreli-hes-taking-5th)) Fuck you, Martin Shkreli. Not for taking the 5th, but for being a douchebag. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/64 "2016-02-04T17:33:35Z")
I hope he gets some stupid disease, and then dies because he couldn’t afford the pills. That would be good poetic justice. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/65 "2016-02-04T17:37:16Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [This douchebag is in the news today because he’s taking the 5th.](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c7948f9d0b25466c8665b5c1807a96d0/lawmakers-anxious-hear-shkreli-hes-taking-5th) > Fuck you, Martin Shkreli. Not for taking the 5th, but for being a douchebag. [http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-shkreli-idUSKCN0VD20S](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-shkreli-idUSKCN0VD20S) I thought the motherfucker was in jail. Must’ve bonded out. Fuck him. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/66 "2016-02-04T18:21:39Z")
How does one get butt-fucked in the eye? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/67 "2016-02-04T18:23:14Z")
There is no way this guy can walk down the street safely without body guards at this point. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/68 "2016-02-04T18:35:08Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > [http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-shkreli-idUSKCN0VD20S](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-shkreli-idUSKCN0VD20S) > > I thought the motherfucker was in jail. Must’ve bonded out. Fuck him. From your link: > [@](#): > > Shkreli wrote on Twitter: “Hard to accept that these imbeciles represent the people in our government.” ---
**Author:** ![Chihuahua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@Chihuahua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chihuahua)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/69 "2016-02-04T19:47:52Z")
A serious question: This guy displays behavior that can only be described as pathological. He actually seems to take some kind of perverse joy what he is doing. I suspect he has an antisocial personality disorder, but I am not a doctor. Anyone have any theories? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/70 "2016-02-04T19:57:24Z")
> [@Chihuahua](#): > > A serious question: This guy displays behavior that can only be described as pathological. He actually seems to take some kind of perverse joy what he is doing. I suspect he has an antisocial personality disorder, but I am not a doctor. Anyone have any theories? He’s an asshole. Why complicate things? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/71 "2016-02-04T20:58:41Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > He’s an asshole. Why complicate things? Yup! QtM, MD ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/72 "2016-02-04T22:07:50Z")
I think his name is proof that Charles Dickens runs the universe. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/73 "2016-02-04T23:54:49Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I thought the motherfucker was in jail. Must’ve bonded out. Fuck him. Due to the failure and bankruptcy of his most recent “investment”, his bail is no longer secured by his pledged assets, and the prosecutor is moving for either more assets or revocation of bail. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/74 "2016-02-05T00:35:30Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > Due to the failure and bankruptcy of his most recent “investment”, his bail is no longer secured by his pledged assets, and the prosecutor is moving for either more assets or revocation of bail. I look forward to further developments with glee. Shkreli is the poster boy for the kind of unregulated free market that people like Paul Ryan worship. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/75 "2016-02-05T01:39:36Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > How does one get butt-fucked in the eye? All it requires is having one’s head up one’s ass. I’ll grant that that may be too charitable a description of the slime in question. ---
**Author:** ![Chihuahua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@Chihuahua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chihuahua)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/76 "2016-02-05T02:06:57Z")
Probably not going to be a popular opinion but… What did people think was going to happen? We created a system where a business gets proprietary ownership of a resource people’s lives depend on, and then told them to operate as a for-profit enterprise. If I was legally the only person allowed to sell water, I could charge whatever I wanted. Now someone actually went and did it, and people are angry about it?? The spice must flow, as they say. The US health care system is corrupt as shit, and every election 50% of the country votes for a party dedicated to maintaining the status quo, so this is just the obvious end result of a century of idiocy. We still have people campaigning on the idea that health care reform Is a socialist assault on our liberty, and people buy it, and assholes like Shkreli take our money and laugh all the way to the bank… And then the morons STILL vote against reform in the health care system. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/77 "2016-02-05T03:12:12Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > How does one get butt-fucked in the eye? I believe it’s called the “brown eye”. ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/78 "2016-02-05T15:01:17Z")
Van Morrison had a song about it. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/79 "2016-02-05T15:10:33Z")
> [@Chihuahua](#): > > A serious question: This guy displays behavior that can only be described as pathological. He actually seems to take some kind of perverse joy what he is doing. I suspect he has an antisocial personality disorder, but I am not a doctor. Anyone have any theories? > [@running\_coach](#): > > He’s an asshole. Why complicate things? > [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Yup! > > QtM, MD Nice. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738/80 "2016-02-05T15:28:25Z")
At the risk of my reputation on this Board (such as it is), I would like to say a few words in his defence. I believe he is correct in asserting that Daraprim was underpriced. I don’t remember the exact figures but, the cost of that drug per life saved, even _after_ the huge price hike, was still much less than the cost for many other drugs, e.g. the newly available hepatitis-C therapy, and virtually all the designer monoclonal antibodies reaching the market every day (you know, the ones that cost 100K annually, or more). In other words, the drug is, relatively speaking, still a bargain! So, all he was doing rectifying a historic pricing error. Yes, it means that some people will no longer be able to afford it, but he claims that no one will ever be denied the drug because of lack of funds. And, yes, it means that the total cost for all prescription drugs dispensed in the US will increase - to the tune of something in the ballpark of 0.1 percent. Hardly the end of the world. I think people should admit the fact that he is simply a very identifiable target - a surrogate - for the ‘evil’ BIG PHARMA. Yes, he is own worst enemy but it is disingenuous to single him out when so many other pharmaceutical firms are charging way more than he is for their product (per life saved). ETA: I think he also happens to have a _forme fruste_ of Tourette’s Syndrome and that surely doesn’t help him come across well [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-martin-shkreli-you-worthless-scheming-sack-of-shit/740738.md?page=5)