HuffPost's Yaco-Mink Exposed as Big Pharma Shill

Andy Yaco-Mink, the technology manager at The Huffington Post, has recently been caught posting negative comments on the blog of HuffPost's big pharma whistleblower, Peter Rost. Yaco-Mink's comments tended to be either pro-big pharma, or anti-Peter Rost, exposing Yaco-Mink's and possibly HuffPost's support for big drug companies.

Here is an example of Yaco-Mink encouraging Peter Rost to keep his mouth shut about big pharma:

$10,000 Fine If I Talk by Dr. Peter Rost
If you just go ahead and don't reveal the confidential information, you can pretty much stop worrying about the fine.
By: yacomink on May 23, 2006 at 02:48pm

A week later Yaco-Mink starts to get sarcastic:

Don't Trust Your Television News by Dr. Peter Rost
You can't trust your local news!?!?! Alert the presses!!!
By: yacomink on May 30, 2006 at 12:02pm

And the next week, Yaco-Mink is somewhat excited although at a loss for words:

My Blog in the News by Dr. Peter Rost
!!!
By: yacomink on June 06, 2006 at 11:06am

Things start heating up as Peter Rost gets suspicious of military think-tanks that are stalking him:

Am I Crazy Paranoid . . . ? by Dr. Peter Rost
You're upset because someone in the office of a PR firm is reading your weblog? Is that right?
By: yacomink on June 12, 2006 at 12:09pm

The next day, Yaco-Mink enourages Peter Rost to write a blog exposing him as a paid troll:

How a Public Relations Firm Helped Start the War by Dr. Peter Rost
Wow. I can't beleive all these people are spying on your weblog. It should be illegal for people to read things you post on the internet. It's a huge invasion of your privacy. Do you have lengthy articles on any of your other readers you'd care to share with us?
By: yacomink on June 13, 2006 at 03:01pm

Again the next day, Yaco-Mink continues with the same thoughts, and gets voted "best of" by the "users". This"best of" status makes it easier for Peter to notice Yaco-Mink's comments:

Now I'm REALLY freaking out! by Dr. Peter Rost
Are you insane? This is a public website. If there are people you don't want reading your blog posts, don't put them on a public website. If you think what you're saying is of any importance, isn't it a good thing that people from the government are reading it? Would you prefer that people you don't agree with only read things that _they_ agree with?
By: yacomink on June 14, 2006 at 12:10pm

Then comes Yaco-Minks next "best of" comment, in a further attempt at getting noticed by Peter Rost.

Are Many Companies Criminal Enterprises? by Dr. Peter Rost
Do you not know how to read polls? Is that the problem?Also, what do the results of an informal poll on companies 'spying' on employee email have to do with a 2005 study on employees observing co-worker's misconduct? Nothing. That's what.This thing reads like a 6th grader's first attempt at a research paper.
By: yacomink on June 16, 2006 at 02:02pm

That was Yaco-Mink's last comment, at least under the name yacomink. Next comes the blog that gets Peter Rost fired:

A Troll* inside Huffington Post? by Dr. Peter Rost

Being true to form, Peter writes an indepth whitleblowing post about Yaco-Mink trolling his blog without disclosing his identity as the HuffPost Technical Manager. Yaco-Mink has suceeded in getting Peter Rost to expose him as a HuffPost paid troll. HuffPost then felt they had cause to fire Peter, paving the way to future big pharma advertising on HuffPost.