all 6 comments

[–]Tom_Bombadil 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's a crime worthy of rendition. Go kidnap and torture the executives authorizing that crime.

Nazi doctors, indeed...

[–]jtriangle 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

How does this happen exactly? That seems fantastically unlikely to have 'accidentally' happen.

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There was no accident, they definitely did it intentionally, for profit. Bayer doesn't care, and why should they? They didn't really get punished in any serious way, unfortunately

[–]malzyg 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Did you read the article?

It happened in the early 80ies. At that time not much was known about HIV.

[–]jtriangle 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ah, I think I glossed over that bit...

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They knew enough to understand that it wasn't safe for use in the US.
The knew people would be harmed, and probably die.