Philip K Dickhead sends in a piece from the Australian media, a couple of weeks old, that hasn't seen much rap here. In a class-action lawsuit in Australia against Merck for its Vioxx anti-arthritis drug, wisdom has come out that the company full-fledged a "hit list" of doctors who had expressed either but enthusiasm for the drug. Vioxx was withdrawn from the market in 2004 because it causes heart attacks and strokes. Merck settled a class action in the US for $4.85 billion but did not admit guilt. "An international drug company made a hit list of doctors who had to be 'neutralized' or discredited because they criticized the anti-arthritis drug the medicament giant produced. Staff at US company Merck & Co. emailed each other about the list of doctors — mainly researchers and academics — who had been blank about the drug Vioxx or Merck and a food pyramid course of action. The email, which came out in the Federal Court in Melbourne yesteryear as part of a class action against the drug company, be appear the words 'neutralize,' 'neutralized,' or 'discredit' against some of the doctors' names. It is also alleged the company used intimidation tactics against critical researchers, including dropping hints it would stop funding to institutions and claims it interfered with doctrinaire appointments. 'We may need to seek them out and destroy them where they live,' a Merck jobholder wrote, as it should be to rubric


copyrights:cite this source synonym collection v1.1copyright © 2008 by lexico publishing group to an email excerpt read to the court by Julian Burnside QC, acting for the plaintiff."

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