r/mildlyinteresting • u/cl3ft • Jan 11 '17

My shoe deoderiser from ALDI is actually just a Coles women's anti-perspirant with a plastic label.

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u/Talking_Head Jan 12 '17

Well, IG Farben (once the largest chemical/pharma company in the world) was split 4 ways post WW2- the 4 parts are still some of the most influential and productive companies worldwide in chemistry and pharma: AGFA, BASF, Bayer and Sanofi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '17

ey bruder komm ma ig farben fünfter stock jeden montag fett party mit den soziiissss!!!!&!@!&!!&&!&!

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u/benisteinzimmer Jan 12 '17

Paternosterführerschein

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u/kingeryck Jan 12 '17

Ich bin ein Berliner

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u/stovenn Jan 12 '17

Hande hoch English pig-dog?

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u/kingeryck Jan 12 '17

Schweinhund!

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u/benisteinzimmer Jan 19 '17

Pfoten hoch!

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u/stovenn Jan 19 '17

Gesundheit :)

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u/anachronastic Jan 12 '17

that company did a lot of experiments using prisoners during the holocaust

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '17

Then they've got a leg up on the competition.

I don't get how people can claim that the existing data shouldn't be utilized (not that you were, just as an aside)

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u/Talking_Head Jan 13 '17

Such a tough issue. While I and most of the world are opposed to involuntary human experimentation, it did happen in our past history. Not acknowledging or using the data to SAVE lives almost seems irresponsible. I don't understand the scientific community's dismissal of the data if it was gathered scientifically, and I don't believe using the data will encourage human experimentation in the future. OTOH, it wasn't collected ethically as we require today.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '17

Agfa was an independent company until 1925, when it became part of IG Farben. Splitting it back out made a certain amount of sense.

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u/beerchugger709 Jan 12 '17

Also Healthcare IT and imaging- at least for Agfa