Paper about Herbalife-related patient death removed after legal threats

Re:Paper about Herbalife-related patient death removed after... by markdown on Monday December 21, 2020 @12:36AM (#25492389)

Ooof, if mere Herbalife can get Elsevier to do this, one wonders what science about the oil industry, tobacco, sugar, etc has been concealed by Elsevier.

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Re:Paper about Herbalife-related patient death removed after... by rndgermandude on Monday December 21, 2020 @04:02AM (#25493267)

Herbalife has had revenues of almost $4.9B in 2019 and $311M of net profit. They aren't really a small player that I would call "mere".

They'd be a Fortune 600 company - around #550 - if they weren't officially incorporated on the Cayman Islands and therefore technically not a US company.

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Re:Paper about Herbalife-related patient death removed after... by markdown on Monday December 21, 2020 @05:38AM (#25493682)

So there are 550 better resourced companies in the US alone, with the leading ones making $270B to Herbalife’s 5?

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Re:Paper about Herbalife-related patient death removed after... by rndgermandude on Monday December 21, 2020 @05:41AM (#25493701)

Sure, and there is also roughly 10.75 million companies in the US alone with worse "resources" by that metric, although we're talking revenue here not resources.

Having a cool $300M of essential "fuck it" money (net profits) per year, to mess with your enemies if you want, is substantial too.

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Re:Paper about Herbalife-related patient death removed after... by RobertRoberts on Monday December 21, 2020 @01:33AM (#25492610)

Or any pharmaceutical company...

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Re:Paper about Herbalife-related patient death removed after... by bzb6 on Monday December 21, 2020 @03:58AM (#25493249)

There is nothing “mere” about Herbalife.

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