No relation, of course to the Spitzer scandal. Those are hard-working women, earning a living. These are fucking whores.

At the same time, other people have managed to stall "tort reform" for just as long.

Ironic, ain't it?

Vytorin?

Hee hee, thersites!

If Congress manages to shine some sun on this company's lowjinks, I'd like to see the 'risk management' estimates:

present discounted value of extra years of profits

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present discounted value of future lawsuits

Isn't this how the free market is supposed to work? Let consumers buy unsafe drugs for as long as they want. When they get tired of the side effects that are killing them the drug will gradually become unprofitable and the manufacturer will take it off the market.

This way we not only cull the herd of the weak and infirm, we also preserve the sanctity of free markets and the profitability of private enterprise. Sounds like a win-win-win.

Wait, I'm starting to get it. Yeah. A "Trial lawyer" is someone who represents a person against a company. So what do we call someone who represents a company against the government and the public? Oh yeah, "rich."

"..fucking whores..."

-good pun.

Grammar alert, on a pet peeve of mine.

Kevin, there's just one Weinberg Group. Your opening sentence should say "one of its specialties" rather than "one of their specialties."

Sorry, "website" is the subject, not "group," and of course, there's only one website. Same critique applies.

I hope these guys fry.

Just think, they caused or contributed to the deaths of many ill patients! Kudos!

trog: not Vytorin.

Vytorin is a combination of simvistatin, a good cholesterol reducing drug and ezetimibe, which is probably useless.
The infamous drugs that have been withdrawn in the last 10 years are actually not that numerous, but since there should be none in this category...

It may not be Vioxx, because it only came on the market in 1999 and was withdrawn in 2004. Fen-phen was widely used only for 3-4 years in the mid 90's. Another NSAID, Bextra, was found to be dangerous after only 4-5 years on the market. Baycol [a statin] was only on the market for about the same amount of time in the late 90's to 2001.

In each of these cases there are some solid allegations that the companies knew about the dangers long before they withdrew the drugs form the market, but none of them looks like it took ten years. That leaves two alternative explanations:
1. The drug companies knew about the dangers long before FDA approval, or
2. The Weinberg group bullshitting everyone by claiming to be a bigger bad guy than they actually were.

you'd think that someone having PR savvy would know better than to make such claims on their website. because it makes you (and your customers) look like total scumbags when it comes to the media's attention.