Kids trump Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli with $2 pill
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First posted: Thursday, December 01, 2016 04:42 PM EST | Updated: Thursday, December 01, 2016 04:57 PM EST
Wildly disliked so-called Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli is scoffing at a group of high school students who recreated his $750 life-saving drug for just $2.
“Glad the kids are learning about science,” Shkreli tweeted. “Not sure how anyone got ‘owned’ lol.”
Shkreli — called the “most hated man in the world” after hiking the price of anti-parasitic drug Daraprim from $13 to $750 – was his typical despicable self, the New York Post reports.
Eleven chemistry students from a Sydney, Australia school - with help from a university professor - recreated the pill as a project, but Shkreli called it easy.
He tweeted: “Anyone can make any drug. lol how is that showing anyone up?”
“Almost any drug can be made at small scale for a low price. Glad it makes u feel good tho.”
He added: “Congratulations on a crash course in organic chemistry and good luck with FDA approval.”
And then the so-called Pharma Bro lashed out at commenters, reporters and anyone else who questioned his wonderfulness.
The students shared the public’s outrage at Shkreli’s shameless antics, their professor said.
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