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POPSShould We Trust The Experts? "None of this suggests the public should abandon a healthy skepticism toward even well-credentialed authorities. Pharmaceutical companies, with colossal missteps like the dangerous medication Vioxx, have earned suspicions about their motivations. Vaccinations foregone put not only those individual children at risk but clear the path for infectious disease to spread more easily. That's not a great outcome, whether we're collectively battling the measles or this season's H1N1 flu. "You can't minimize your individual risk," Wallace writes, "unless your herd, your friends and neighbors, also buy in." Our children most certainly deserve safe vaccines; that's a given. I don't blame people for not trusting special interest groups. I just thought this article brought out some interesting points regarding social media.
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POPSMerck employees had "hit list" of doctors they sought to "neutralize", court documents reveal Full article at source. At least eight clinical investigators were threatened or intimidated by Merck, the court heard in testimony. This is congruent with the many reports of academic intimidation by Merck that have already been published on NaturalNews.com and other news outlets. The picture of Merck that emerges from these revelations is a company run by thugs who deal with dissent by seeking to destroy the lives and careers of academics who dare to tell the truth about Merck's dangerous drugs .
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POPSVitamin E, Vioxx, and Codex But when researchers looked at all heart-related deaths, which included sudden cardiac death, they found a 24 percent reduction." lol The figures don't lie, however liars figure. Codex, the NWO plan to regulate all supplements very soon is too scary to talk about right now. Google "codex alimentarus". Yikes!
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POPSIs there hope for the FDA? Bush's policies and culture has far and reaching effects on the federal government. The public good is no longer at the heart of our democracy.
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POPSMerck Wins Vioxx Appeals The current tally of wins and losses, according to a Merck spokesman: "Of the 18 plaintiffs whose cases went to trial, only three have outstanding product liability judgments against Merck. "
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POPSDid Merck Tell Patients About Vioxx Risk? A nice scoop by Ed Silverman about the Vioxx liability. The thrust is that Merck should have told participants in a clinical trial that Vioxx should cause heart attacks, but that it didn't. How this affects liability is anyone's guess, but this potential risk should certainly have been outlined to participants in Merck's studies. --Matt Herper
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POPSThinking 'Bout Vioxx There's tons of discussion today about this great NYT piece on how well Merck's Vioxx defense strategy -- basically, play rope-a-dope -- has worked. The unanswered question is whether this basically represents a failure of the legal system -- whatever happened to a fair and speedy trial? Does Merck have a huge liability that it is just putting off for the future, or will the claims dissapate as plaintiffs give up, run out of money, or die? That's one of the big questions every drug firm wants answered. --Matt Herper
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POPSFDA rejecting more drugs There are 2 sides here. First I can see that the FDA would want to protect their image, and the drug companies avoid lawsuits (which we just end up paying when they raise drug prices). Second -- I can see terminally ill people desperate to try anything. I don't believe that the courts should deny the dying as long as they stipulate an understanding of the nature of experimental drugs. People need to stop being so ready to "sue". I used the drug remicade (it was not experimental, the potential side effects were documented). I happened to be in the small percentage of people who could not tolerate it; I developed diabetes & some other side effects. That's just the way it was - I choose to take it, knew possible side effects - have to deal with it now. I am not joining any groups that are suing....would that give me my health back????
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POPSCox-2 Inhibitors and Cardiovascular Risk...now what?
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