Merck Pleads Guilty to Criminal Charge and Pays $950 Million Fine for Vioxx

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Merck is the company that makes Gardasil, MMR, Varivax (chickenpox) and other vaccines. Merck is the largest US vaccine manufacturer.

According to OSHA head David Michael’s excellent book Doubt is Their Product, Merck knew from their pre-release clinical studies that Vioxx had four times the risk of heart attack as the placebo they used (naproxen). They preposterously inverted that finding and spun it around to state that the placebo naproxen reduced heart attack risk by 80%. According to Michaels’ book, ‘scientists at the FDA estimate that Vioxx caused between 88,000 and 139,000 heart attacks, probably 30%-40% of them fatal.’

The midpoint of that range is 40,000. So Merck (with foreknowledge) deliberately killed about 40,000 people that were simply taking a pain reliever drug (most weren’t heart patients). That is almost as many deaths as US combat casualties in the Vietnam war. That must make Merck the biggest corporate mass-murderer in history. Where is the outrage? The public remains ignorant of Merck’s crime.

Take a close look at that deadly card trick with placebos. Merck and other vaccine manufacturers use a similar strategy with vaccine trials. Vaccine safety studies use other vaccines or aluminum adjuvants for placebos, not something neutral like saline solution. Vaccines and aluminum adjuvants cause neurological adverse reactions. If their new vaccine being tested causes the same amount of neurological reactions as an old vaccine or aluminum placebo, they call it ‘safe.’


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http://healthimpactnews.com/2011/me...l-charge-and-pays-950-million-fine-for-vioxx/
 
What's really crazy is that they got such a light slap on the wrist.
$950 million for 40,000 deaths is less than $24,000 per person killed (not to mention those who suffered without dying).
And, the fine that was expected was $4.5 billion, so this was actually less than a fourth of what they were prepared to pay.
And I also wonder how much money they made on Vioxx...

There is an interesting blog entry on the issue here: http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2007/11/09/merck-vioxx-settlement-by-the-numbers/
 
They should be forced to make mass refunds to the people affected along with "x" amount of dollars along with it though no amount of money could ever come close to replacing a loved one.
 
god this fucking disgusting

high ranking officials who approved this kind of shit should are the criminals who should be in jail for the rest of their lives. shit it only really takes 1 murder to get a life sentence, and these fuckers are paying chump change for 50k murders
 
But OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! 40 people died of stuff that wasn't even MDMA last year!!! Hold the front page! What must it be like for a parent of one of those 40 children???
 
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