[bitchypat]

They sure turned quickly for Martin Shkreli.

His company raised the price of a drug to an absurd level and overnight he became "the most hated man in America".

Her company endangered, and likely caused real harm to, numerous patients' health and she gets to keep on selling and is even given a platform by the AACC to due so.

[Aelinsaar]

I mean, Shkreli turned out to be such a psychopath that he couldn't even pretend not to be a monster for the media or a judge. I see him as the Jeffry Dahmer of that end of the spectrum to be honest, and just... extreme. Holmes seems like a much more composed fraudster.

[jshevek]

If Shkreli was really incapable of pretending not to be a monster, then he is much less of a monster than many who lead pharmaceutical companies.

It saddens me that so many people delighted in indulging in a visceral hatred of this one individual, while seeming to be unaware that our entire system is overly influenced by many hundreds or thousands of people with similar values as him. The world would be a better place if the majority of Shkreli haters invested a tiny fraction of that energy into looking at the pharmaceutical industry as a whole, and the abuse of various mechanisms (patents included) to inflate prices and stifle competition.

Some of the other scumbags (at other pharmaceutical companies) were probably relieved that so many of us focused on hating Shkreli the person, rather than asking deeper questions about the legal and moral framework in which they all operate.

Hate the player and the game. Some of Shkreli's despicable actions were perfectly legal, so we should try to change the rules of the game (legislatively) rather than focusing so much on the character of one bad player.

[Frondo]

Hated, yes, but the wheels of justice busted Shkreli for some other fraud in the past, not the price hikes. The most-hated-man status is in the court of public opinion, which isn't an actual court.