Posted by Dan Perkins on December 18, 2004, at 8:16:43
In reply to Re: Lilly Adds Warning to Strattera Label - Liver, posted by yxibow on December 17, 2004, at 22:33:11
What medications can you name that are so helpful to people but have been pulled off the market b/c of "conspiracy theories" and "ambulance chasers??"
Billions of dollars are a stake and the drug companies have shown that time and again they put the interests of their shareholders of the interests of the consumers who take their medications. They don't pull drugs b/c of internet rumors, they pull drugs when the pile of dead bodies gets to high to ignore.Vioxx was approved and remained on the market for 4 years amid widespread skepticism ("conspiracy theories" I suppose you would call them) without merck pulling the drug and now we find that 55,000 people may have been killed.
> Because of exactly the very conspiracy theory that I feel you may be alluding to; medications that have had benifits for the vast majority except 10 patient-lives out of a million have been pulled because the ambulance-chasers line up off and online ready to pull at the heartstrings of some who have nothing better to do than worry that floridation has ate their spleen.
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