11 kids in Sydney recreated Martin Shkreli's drug for just $2. The moral of the story? When you do cool shit like this, it's ok if you don't wear pants!

link?...am interested

@bdhobare it's viral now. Just Google it. Shkreli responded like a dickhead (as he usually does) and getting some outrage.

Well this is ... Difficult , it's is easier to reverse a drug or anything then it is to create it from scratch... And Know that it works etc

So the cost of the drug ends up being alot... During that time making the drug also becomes cheaper kind of like how the original DNA test cost a million now it cost less then 10 dollars

So.... Yes he's an asshole but isn't way off base

http://arstechnica.com/science/...

Unfortunately not as good as it sounds, mostly clickbait titles from the media.

@FitzSuperUser I agree he isn't way off base.. but he is definitely one of the most publicly vocal assholes in the recent time

Whoever thinks that the price of medicine is based on production cost is naive. It's partly based on research costs, expected wealth of costumers and above all marketing expenses. Yes thinking about and creating the first version of a drug is expensive (but that happens mostly in universities). But the spending is mostly who to market to.

The system is broken and needs to be changed.

-btw pantless dude is extremely happy ;)

What is it with the recent influx of non-programming submissions?

The drug price rise was for insurance companies only. They used this money for research for a better drug. People without insurance got the drug for the normal price. The media loves a good story though.

@gggggggggg Don't know but pants-less boy was funny

@GigabyteDX I think you misunderstand, in many developed countries you must be insured, so that means everyone pays that price.

@Charmgoggles nope, according to what Ive read online including wikipedia, those who are not insured and cannot afford the drug only have to pay a dollar through a free drug program. Evil CEO who increases drug price 5000% is good story for the media though. Even if was only insurance companies who paid the increased price.

Looks like an Australian school uniform. Uniforms (any kind) often include shorts (stubbies) with knee high socks. Certainly made me chuckle first time I saw it!