Re: Should the responsible Merck executives go to jail?
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Hi Matt,
you're missing the point: you're pointing us to only one side of the issue. In a trial, the other side is allowed to put up a defense.
jba
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Not sure what I left out? The only contention - made by the New England Journal of Medicine's board - is three serious adverse events* were left out of the landmark paper that gave rise to the success of Vioxx. Merck has acknowledged that fact.
* By definition an adverse event is any bad medical event that occurs while taking a drug and does not mean it was caused by the drug.
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