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BioPharmGuy
At the local library I saw Vivek Ramaswamy’s book Woke Inc on the new release shelf and decided to check it out. Vivek is the Founder/ex-CEO of Roivant Sciences. I thought the guy was a shyster, but decided to read it anyways since he got ultrawealthy by IPO-ing a bunch of tiny drug companies and I sort of expected a biotech guy who has f**k you money to be willing to piss off everyone with his musings.
Unfortunately, this is a political book with no ideological spread. I did not know his politics going in, but Vivek hews dogmatically to all mainstream right-wing positions. That’s fine if you’re selling a political book aimed at right-wing readers, but I was hoping for a neutral, analytical account of how the wokeness movement is affecting capitalism. Oh well.
The book itself is just a bunch of political opinions, self-aggrandizement and anecdotes. In one drug industry-related rant, he brings up supposed corruption in American politics. He draws a line between AstraZeneca announcing a $1B global Environmental Social Governance exercise in January 2020 and them being rewarded for this supposed 'wokeness’ by getting a $1.2B grant from the US government for vaccine development two months later in March 2020.
The ridiculous part here is ignoring the whole global pandemic that started spinning out of control between those two dates. AstraZeneca’s expertise as a century-old drugmaker made them a perfectly logical choice to receive funds when all large, proven drugmakers were being offered the same money. Yet Vivek thinks AstraZeneca received that cash because they pledged money to woke policies? It just doesn’t add up at all, and he knows that - especially when you consider who was running the federal government at the time of Operation Warp Speed.
2/10. Rambling, repetitive and nakedly political. (Still think he’s a shyster)
-BPG
Companies Added & Removed
No updates this week.
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Last Thanksgiving we did a "Holiday Roast" where we had fun messing with a few biotech company websites. This week we unleash our bigger and better Spring Break Roast...
Venomyx
This company prides itself on defying "the norm". As such, they weren't about to have their pictures taken in normal places like an office, a city or a holding cell. No sir, instead they threw on some jeans and headed to the woods to find the perfect tree. And what a tree it is. Just look at that bark!
Found Mnemo
How can anyone hope to one-up such a sturdy and noble tree? How about OUTER SPACE! Yeah buddy - can't reach a higher pinnacle than that. Tell us you don't suddenly think this team is amazing upon seeing those painted stars behind them. That's right, you can't - because you're not a liar.
As an added bonus, the outer space imagery helps distract you from that unbelievably annoying animated hummingbird logo. How does something like that get approved? Shame! Shame!
Put. On. The. Jacket.
Rain Therapeutics went with a jacket theme for their group photos, but incredibly did not make it a rain jacket. Come on, it was right there, people.
We choose to believe the company bought a single jacket and all 17 people used it for their picture. That jacket is now hanging in the rain hall of fame next to an umbrella and above a barrel.
Interesting Lab
Austrianni is working on a tuberculosis treatment and if you scroll down for their team pic, you might notice they don't seem to be working with standard lab equipment. TB is a hard nut to crack, but still it seems like they might have a too many cooks situation going on.
Play Ball!
To honor Major League Baseball ending their lockout, here we have Triangle Insights Group posing for a picture at Durham Bulls Athletic Park. Not a Major League stadium, but pretty close. The Triangle team all had a nice time...except for that guy who seems to have just seen the ghost of Crash Davis.
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Products That Contain Animal Products
Way back in college BioPharmGuy spoiled Caesar dressing for his vegetarian friend. So we thought we would spoil some more stuff for your entertainment. Here goes:
-Gummy Bears
-Marshmallows
-Worcestershire sauce
And can we tell you about Castoreum? It's "generally regarded as safe" by the FDA and was once used as a vanilla flavoring in a small number of products. It is sourced from the anal glands of beavers. Yum yum!
And while grains do not contain animal products, let's not forget the millions of mice, frogs and other critters that die during harvest time. Their blood may not be in your mouth, but it's still on your hands.
Criminal Smell
Dogs sniff out drugs, corpses, assailants, all kinds of stuff. But those things actually have a perceivable smell, so it's all about training. But here we have some dogs that can smell USB flash drives that criminals may have stashed.
Pretty cool, but who knew a flash drive had a smell? The key to finding these things seems to be the chemical triphenylphosphine oxide, which is used to coat them or something. Wild.
Maybe some day dogs will get to the next level and be trained to smell crime.
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