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Posted By: Hal Lewis

David:

I know that some frivilous lawsuits are gumming up the new drug R&D pipelines...

but from everything that has come out in the testimony from the Vioxx trials to date, Merck deserves everything they have coming to them on this one.

A company memo to their sales reps about how to play "Dodgeball" with doctors in order to avoid answering questions about the side effects of Vioxx and the adverse results of their own study??

Their OWN former employees testifying against them and saying that they were "blackballed" when they tried to speak out against the dangers??


Definitely NOT something I want to hear about as a consumer if I was taking ANY drug!

And definitely NOT frivilous.