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Biotech Executive Apologizes for Superspreader Conference by Promoting His Unapproved Products

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The webinar was supposed to offer infected attendees health information–but instead, Peter Diamandis plugged one of his own companies.

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Peter Diamandis, a biotech executive who planned an in-person conference in January where more than two dozen attendees caught the coronavirus, apologized for his misstep with a misinformation-filled webinar. The webinar was supposed to offer infected attendees health information–but instead, Diamandis plugged one of his own companies and unproven COVID cures. The Singularity University-founder reportedly brought on a doctor to demonstrate a regimen involving peptide injections–a treatment his company Fountain Life sells. “We have good prices that we can get a lot of this to our members,” a Fountain Life business partner said on the call. Read it at Bloomberg.

Read it at Bloomberg

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