Martin Shkreli sees Silicon Valley’s peptide obsession as a “delusion,” firing back at Superpower co-founder and peptide advocate Max Marchione in a podcast debate.
The Debate
Shkreli, who spent twenty years in pharma and made his career evaluating pharmaceutical compounds, says the whole category fails basic science since peptides break down in the body in seconds or minutes.
Without a known target, a binding mechanism, and real clinical data, he argues you don’t have a drug.
“If your drug has never been tested, there is a reason,” he wrote in an X post. “The reason is not that you are a biopharmaceutical genius who has found something cool that everyone else missed.”
Marchione, who founded a health optimization platform that already sells peptides and is building out its offerings, fired back on X and in the TBPN debate.
What Are Peptides
Peptides, such as insulin, are small proteins that have been used in medicine for decades. …
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