Fabrication

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

If you knock on enough doors, eventually one will open. Tireless investigators trace the infected blood from the arms of people with haemophilia back to the room where it all began – in that American prison.

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0:00.0	The Telegraph Podcasts.
0:02.0	Do you want to hear how plasma was collected?
0:09.0	It's just an unbelievable vision that I can't get out of my mind.
0:13.0	Tom Mull has a video that a whistleblower leak to him.
0:17.0	He's a lawyer and he represented people in America with hemophilia who were given
0:22.0	HIV. The video shows the inner workings of a factory where a pharmaceutical company made
0:28.2	factor eight. Tom and his wife Lorraine and their friend Michael Baum, who are also lawyers,
0:34.4	are talking me through it. It's kind of rough, gritty film, which makes it perfect.
0:41.2	The leaders of plasma that are in things that look like...
0:44.6	Plasma bottles are loaded onto a conveyor belt.
0:47.1	Rined with workers who are wearing moon suits, then they go through a thing that
0:52.4	slices the top off of them.
0:55.5	Then they get tilted over. At the end of the belt, they're emptied into a massive bat.
0:59.0	Looks like a beer bat, honestly.
1:00.7	These big stainless steel barrels.
1:03.6	If you could imagine like you had one of your water bottles that you used,
1:09.0	take 5,000 of those and dump them into a vat.
1:13.6	It looked like pond scum. It was disgusting.
1:17.6	All the nasty stuff rose to the top and it was green and bubbling up.
1:33.9	And they'd stir it, and there was a process where they could pull out the different products.
1:37.3	They did that by spinning it around at a high speed.
1:45.0	It's just like the petroleum industry, every level of molecules created a different product.
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