Re: Should the responsible Merck executives go to jail?
i had a pretty long discussion with my dad about similar stuff today, he works as a statistician in public health trials (mainly stroke medication, some minor work in other neurological things). his attitude, which is what i now believe after hearing him explain it, is that the executives should go to jail. he is well aware that the drug can still greatly benefit a great deal of patients, and can be worth the risks, but the executives need to be held accountable for knowingly lying about the risks of their medication. that is pretty much about as bad as it gets. this is of course if it is proven that the allegations are proven true in public, which they havent been yet.
the FDA may have unnecessarily pulled the drug, but what does that have to do with whether the executives should go to jail?
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