People List The 25 Most Outrageous Scandals That Shook Mankind

During our lifetime alone, we have witnessed a scandal or two that made global headlines. Bill Clinton or the ‘Deep Throat’ incident come to mind when we think of scandals that left the public sputtering in outrage. Recently, one user asked Redditors to recall the biggest scandals to happen in human history. Netizens unleashed their opinions on the top unsavoury incidents incited by companies, communities and people throughout history.  

#1

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The pharmaceutical giant Bayer sold a d**g for hemophiliacs that ended being contaminated with HIV. Once learning of the contamination, instead of ceasing sales entirely, the company choose to only discontinue the d**g in the US (where the evidence of the contamination and associated deaths had come from) and proceeded to market the product in Asia and Latin America. Many patients contracted HIV and ultimately died of AIDS because of this decision. To my knowledge, no one from Bayer has ever been prosecuted.

#2

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“This is premium grade copper.”
-Ea-Nasir.

#3

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Religion.

#4

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Oil companies have data as early as the 1970s that their emissions were the primary driver of global climate change and then covering up that data for decades. They knew that they were k*****g the environment and didn’t care. because profits.

#5

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Plastic is good for the environment because it is recyclable.

#6

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Stupid people tearing down what smart people fight for and achieved also for them. Like democracy.

#7

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The concept of trickle down economics.

That when you take care of the top, they’ll take care of you, because that’s what’s holding them up.

#8

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Well..i can’t say much on human history due to how broad it is…so ig i can pinpoint on some points in history

In the world of Medicine: Its gonna be the awarding of Nobel Prize of António Egas Moniz, the proponent of Lobotomy.

Also Andrew Wakefield. the guy who proposes that vaccine causes autism. the dude created fraudulent results. this guy single-handedly puts everyone in jeopardy.

#9

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Douglas Adams — ‘In the beginning the Universe was created.This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.’.

#10

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One of the biggest scandals in human history has to be the Panama Papers leak in 2016. It exposed how world leaders, billionaires, celebrities, and corporations were hiding wealth in offshore tax havens. The scale was mind-blowing—11.5 million documents revealing financial corruption on a global level. Politicians resigned, governments were shaken, and it confirmed what many already suspected: the ultra-rich play by different rules. And the craziest part? Hardly anyone faced real consequences.

#11

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Probably the idea than a man owns a woman and controls her right to reproduction. It has existed in one form or another in all societies, and in some countries it still exists today (think ISIS). I have always been impressed with recent female leaders and I wonder would a matriarchal society have been more peaceful and prosperous.

#12

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Pharmaceutical companies patenting life saving medicine and charging people a fortune for them in the name of shareholder profits.

#13

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Bailing out failed banking system and damning an entire generation to austerity

Could argue the events that lead upto said bank failure was a scandal aswell…..but when it emerged they weren’t subject to same rules as rest of business,it was a scandal.

#14

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I don’t have the biggest but I have the one that makes me laugh. In Ancient Rome Julius Caesar as the head of Rome had an enemy in the senator Cato. During a meeting when Cato was denouncing Caesar for being treasonous and many other things, a messenger came in and slipped Caesar a note which Caesar read supposedly smiling. Cato thinking he had a gotcha moment yelled something along the lines of “see?! He is so bold as to plot and conspire against us here in the senate house. Read your letter aloud!” …It was a raunchy love letter from Catos sister who Caesar was having an affair with. It was read aloud in front of hundreds of the most powerful men in the entire Republic.

#15

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Current day f*******s thinking Hitler is cool.

Obviously Hitler was a bigger scandal overall, but these a******s have had time to reflect.

#16

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H*******t. The idea of making human k*****g factories is so surreal my brain tries to protect me and I’m not realizing what was really going on when thinking about it

So

Instead of k*****g people in war or shooting them THEY MADE SLAUGHTER MACHINES. A WHOLE CAMPS TO K**L PEOPLE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. WHAT THE F**K WAS THAT!!!

#17

Organized religion will prove to be the biggest hoax of all time.

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#18

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Lead in fuel. Many people know about it and why it was partly outlawed, but not enough people know that the dangers and health problems were known right from the beginning. It’s the biggest scandal in terms of loss of human life in existence. Estimated at hundreds of thousands of deaths per year still to this day.

#19

So many but Epstein island. Still no one brought to justice on behalf of those children.

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#20

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#exxonknew

Reports as early as the 1960s knew that burning fossil fuels would cause global catastrophe, all of which are playing out today. Alot of people underestimate the link between rising temps and our growing political instability worldwide. .

#21

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Lead in fuel. Many people know about it and why it was partly outlawed, but not enough people know that the dangers and health problems were known right from the beginning. It’s the biggest scandal in terms of loss of human life in existence. Estimated at hundreds of thousands of deaths per year still to this day.

#22

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The biggest scandal, and the oldest, is that no-one on God’s green earth has yet worked out how to stop the five or so percent of the human race from preying parasitically on the rest of us.

As a result, we all need locks on our houses, businesses, cars, you name it, and passwords on our devices. We have parasites from pickpockets to dictators, from cyber criminals to Ponzi scheme promoters.

We arrest some, we jail others, and nothing stops them. They are the scourge of our species, just as Covid was and whooping cough still is. The wide ranging harm they cause is immeasurable.

In the name of whatever supernatural entity you believe in, can *someone* please come up with a truly effective deterrent, because I can’t.

#23

Big oil companies creating the term “carbon footprint” to make individual people feel worse about their own pollution than pay attention to how much fracking was destroying our earth. I did a whole project on it in high school and I will forever feel duped.

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#24

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The Russian intelligence operation that resulted in two US administration changes.

#25

Maybe the Opium Wars (1839-1860) – The British Empire deliberately flooding China with opium, leading to mass a*******n, all to maintain economic and colonial dominance?

Or the Colonial & Slave Trade Atrocities – The transatlantic slave trade and European colonial exploitation of Africa, Asia, and the Americas shaped global inequality and caused suffering on an unimaginable scale?

The H*******t?

Or the generalized oppression of women and children (and also men who are poor?) in every continent every century?

Or the concept of war, just in general?

So many to pick out form!

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