{"id":1276,"date":"2003-05-22T12:31:09","date_gmt":"2003-05-22T16:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2003\/05\/22\/bayer-drug-sells-aids-to-asia\/"},"modified":"2003-05-22T12:31:09","modified_gmt":"2003-05-22T16:31:09","slug":"bayer-drug-sells-aids-to-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2003\/05\/22\/bayer-drug-sells-aids-to-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayer Drug Sells AIDS to Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a23'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>In this morning&#8217;s NY Times, we learn that Bayer Drug sold possibly HIV-infected blood clotting factor to Asian countries, even after it knew that there was a possibility of infecting people with the drug. Take a look <A href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/05\/22\/business\/22BLOO.html\">here<\/A>.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I&#8217;m not surprised,. but I&#8217;m still aghast.&nbsp; I wish I had more time to process this here, but there&#8217;s two things going on.&nbsp; First, there&#8217;s a form of good-old-fashioned racism, especially regarding Asians and disease.&nbsp; Take a look at <A href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/05\/21\/opinion\/21CHAN.html\">another article<\/A> on the topic.&nbsp; But there&#8217;s also a similar sense that expendable people &#8212; like gays &#8212; are permitted to get AIDS or even have it given to them.&nbsp; Someone at Bayer decided that Asians were expendable.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this morning&#8217;s NY Times, we learn that Bayer Drug sold possibly HIV-infected blood clotting factor to Asian countries, even after it knew that there was a possibility of infecting people with the drug. Take a look here. I&#8217;m not surprised,. but I&#8217;m still aghast.&nbsp; I wish I had more time to process this here, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-kA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}