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The Hollow Men of Hims

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1. leoh ◴[] No.44382928[source]
>What happened in those eight weeks reveals something essential about the kind of company Hims has become. Even as they shook hands with Novo executives in April 2025—presumably in a conference room with aggressively modern furniture—Hims continued selling what their new partner called "illegitimate, knockoff versions" of Wegovy. These were compounded semaglutide injections sourced, according to Novo's investigation, from Chinese suppliers whose quality control standards remained opaque at best and terrifying at worst.

Yes, problematic

>We threw in Elizabeth Holmes for a lot less—though one suspects her fatal error was not the fraud itself but the transparency of it, the sheer crudeness of promising blood tests that did not work rather than the more sophisticated approach of selling actual drugs through loopholes so baroque that even their exploitation carries a patina of legitimacy.

What?

>The pharmaceutical equivalent of putting both ketchup and mustard on a hot dog and calling it gourmet—though one suspects the hot dog vendor would display more honest shame about his craft.

Huh?

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2. randallsquared ◴[] No.44382959[source]
Yeah, the sound of the axe grinding obscured the message.
3. nijave ◴[] No.44383477[source]
>What?

Yeah, that's quite a stretch of comparison...

Questionable quality control vs brazen fraud