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It’s even worse than that. Bayer is infamous for its letters that survived of it negotiating to buy 150 Jewish women for experiments. They were on good conditi
by salad-tycoon 3y ago
It’s even worse than that.
Bayer is infamous for its letters that survived of it negotiating to buy 150 Jewish women for experiments. They were on good condition, they all died from the experimental sleeping pill. They also tested vaccines. Also its parent company made zyklon B.
Example of the letter:
“Received the order for 150 women. Despite their macerated condition they were considered satisfactory. We will keep you informed of the developments regarding the experiments,” “The experiments were performed. All test persons died. We will contact you shortly about a new shipment.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/a-ca73-the-dark-history-of-bayer-chemicals-1 https://morningstaronline.co.uk/a-ca73-the-dark-history-of-b...
- hilbert42 3y agoYou're damn right, its record has been terrible.
- aubanel 3y agoWow that's disgusting. We generally agree after some criminal decisions that decision-makers should be punished, and political parties should be forbidden. Why not apply this to companies ? I see the benefits (punishing stakeholders and deleting an institution that did terrible use of its power), and the downside (losing jobs) does not seem that terrible.
- throwaway74432 3y agoAnd people are flabbergasted at the healthy skepticism towards pharmaceutical companies, when they literally treat people like expendable cattle at every chance they get.
- exe34 2y agoThat's just corporations though. Maybe we should think about alignment...
- suzzer99 2y agoAs someone who worked in the clinical trial industry, pharmaceutical companies are horrible. Thankfully we have a robust drug approval process, with oversight and audits at every step of the way, to more or less keep them in line. It's nothing like software development where literally anything can sneak into production code.
- morkalork 2y agoApparently the author of the above letters got eight years imprisonment after the war. Then after release returned to the board of directors of multiple chemical companies. Unbelievable, should have been hanged.