Hello Vroom Social Network. It's me again, cs420, formerly of Cloud Imperium, now of Turing Pharmaceuticals. Today I was reading an article about how my boss, Martin Shkreli, had recently acquired a cancer company, and I was taken aback by hurtful, ignorant words in the comments section. People called him a criminal, a psychopath, a monster. Nothing could be further from the truth. You see, when he raised the price on Darapim from $13.50 to $750 a pill and he said we would be using the extra money for medical research, he was telling the truth. Here at Turing Pharmaceuticals, we have conducted theoretical research on a miraculous new malaria vaccine, but now that Imprimis Pharmaceuticals has promised to undercut us, selling a similar drug for $1 per pill, we may never be able to secure the funding needed to begin the experimental phase of our research.

I know that we may seem like villains for trying to charge so much money for life saving medicine, but we only did what we did to save lives. The sad truth is that developing a vaccine that could give a person lifetime immunity to malaria is not a profitable venture. The banks don't care about saving lives, all they care about is making money. They don't want us to make cures and vaccines. They want us to make expensive treatments for chronic illnesses. They won't give us the money we need to create such a drug. Buying up the patents for drugs that treat rare diseases and charging out the nose for them is the only way we can raise the money for our research. We aren't even hurting the little people, Darapim is covered by insurance, and we offer financial assistance to patients without insurance. What's wrong with charging the insurance companies this much? Most of their Obamacare money is lining the pockets of their executives anyway, why do they deserve it more than our research? The banks and the health insurers are the real villains.

I think that racism is part of the reason for the backlash against Martin Shkreli too. People in rich countries are all up in arms because they mistakenly believe that by raising the price of Darapim, he was hurting people in their own countries, but they don't seem to give a damn about the million people per year who die of malaria in poor countries. The ones Shkreli is trying to save. So please, don't be a racist, leave Martin Shkreli alone.