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In September 2015, Martin Shkreli quickly became 鈥榯he most hated man in America鈥� after he raised the price of the life-saving drug, Daraprim, by more than 4,000% - almost overnight.

Instead of apologising or hiding away, Shkreli decided to lean into his villain image, with even more media appearances and antagonising acts. In an interview with The Hustle magazine, Shkreli was quoted as saying: 鈥淧eople want a villain,鈥� 鈥淚f people derive some psychological benefit from that, then I don鈥檛 want to deprive them of it. I鈥檒l be your villain.鈥�

Shkreli lied with regularity, harassed female journalists and even took on the Wu-Tang Clan. At his securities fraud trial almost 200 jurors were 鈥榚xcused鈥� during jury selection because as one juror said: 鈥淭he only thing I鈥檇 be impartial about is what prison this guy goes to.鈥�

In part two, Dr Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen discuss the latest research on 鈥榟ate鈥�. Why do we hate? Whom do we hate? And can one love to be hated? They also talk about jury selection and whether it is ever possible to have a completely unbiased jury.

CREDITS
Presenters: Dr Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen
Producer: Simona Rata
Music: Matt Chandler
Editor: Anna Lacey
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Commissioning Assistant Producer: Adam Eland
Commissioning Executive: Dylan Haskins
Bad People is produced in partnership with The Open University and is a 大象传媒 Audio Science Production for 大象传媒 Sounds.