With his latest interview, Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli has officially cemented his place as the worst person in the world and poster child for pharmaceutical greed.
Speaking at the Forbes Healthcare Summit during a 25-minute interview Shkreli said, “ I would have raised prices higher,” after being asked how he would re-do the past three months. “That’s my duty.”
In rapid succession, Shkreli explained why he’d abandoned his previous pledge to cut the price of Daraprim, claimed that companies were still “begging” for his business, and argued that he was being railroaded by politicians, wrote Dan Diamond in Forbes, who described the interview as at turns fascinating, horrifying, and utterly compelling.
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