‘Pharma Bro’ is back — with a new health care product loaded with ethical red flags
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Martin Shkreli, the infamous former pharmaceutical executive Raw Story originally dubbed “Pharma Bro,” is back on the scene — and according to The Daily Beast, he has a new venture: an artificial intelligence “health care assistant” known as DrGupta.ai, which is rife with potential legal and ethical problems. Shkreli, who became an internet villain after massively hiking the price of an antiparasitic drug used by HIV sufferers, was later convicted of securities fraud, served a prison sentence, and was banned from the pharmaceutical industry. But that hasn’t stopped him from attempting to nose …