Bayer
How a Painkiller Built an Empire (Business as Usual)
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Bayer
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Narrated by:
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Mitchell Jon Hugh Turner
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By:
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James Johnson
About this listen
Aspirin changed medicine forever. But that was just the beginning. BAYER is the untold story of how one pharmaceutical company helped invent modern chemistry, aligned with fascism, trademarked heroin, used forced labor at Auschwitz, rebranded, rebounded, and quietly became one of the most powerful corporations on Earth. From industrial dyes to global drugs, from war crimes to billion-dollar cancer settlements, this book traces the long arc of Bayer’s rise and what it reveals about the system behind modern medicine. This isn’t just a company history. It’s a century of power, pain, and profit. Built from the lab bench to the boardroom. If you've ever taken a pill, sprayed a crop, or trusted a label... you were probably part of the empire.
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