Shkreli’s plea from prison: Free me and I’ll cure COVID-19
by Beth Mole from Ars Technica - All content on (#51VBC)
Enlarge / Martin Shkreli outside federal court in Brooklyn, New York, on Thursday, June 29, 2017. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg)
Who can save us from disease and despair in these harrowing times? Why, none other than Martin Shkreli, of course.
Yes, the widely despised ex-pharmaceutical executive currently serving a seven-year federal prison term for fraud is, in fact, humanity's One True Savior... if only we'd let him out of jail for a few months.
In a brief document posted online this week, Shkreli and a small band of associates lay out scientific plans to develop a cure for COVID-19.
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