I feel sorry for the bashers because they are clea

I feel sorry for the bashers because they are clearly sociopaths.

Sociopaths not only do not care about other people, but only for their own selfish needs, and they are literally incapable of understanding that other people do not behave that way.

They exult in harming other people by conspiring to hurt a company which may have drugs that could save hundreds of thousands of lives -- or more -- because they make money shorting it. If one of their family members gets a disease that could have been helped by a drug getting to market sooner -- but they helped slow down the company's progress by making financing more difficult -- they will not feel guilty, because they CAN'T feel guilt.

And if they get the disease themselves, they are not self-aware enough to understand that they have fewer treatment options because of their own actions.

IPIX is moving forward despite the actions of an international cabal of what can only be described as villains.
It's unfortunate that they are incapable of seeing themselves as such, because they could change their ways if they were normal humans.

So, it's not worth hating these people. That would be like hating the spider who bites you. The best response is to ignore them, and then when the time is right, they will go too far and get smashed.