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316 - Bayer AG: The Most EVIL Corporation in the World?

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

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The History of Heroin

Bayer marketed heroin as a cure for morphine addiction before discovering that the body quickly metabolizes it as morphine. By 1913, over 80% of their revenue came from exports. Bayer scored an additional early success in pharmacology with patenting Fina Barbatol branded as Veneral,. The assassination of Austrian archke Franz Ferdinand and on July 28th, 1914, put a roadblock in Bayer's international development.

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