No it wasn't. The whole story is actually worse. Merck knew drug was dangerous and doctors started speaking out against it. Merck actually went as far as to create a hit list of doctors to 'neutralize' which meant to silence.
To me this is an interesting intellectual exercise though. If you assumed the government faked statistics, would you notice a bunch of people dying off?
Vioxx is like a seatbelt, bigot!
Vioxx is safe enough to drink
Not MY Pfizer! They love me.
I like to tell reddit normies to get boosted. They aren't sure if it's an insult or I genuinely care about their health.
I farm RedditKarma by volunteering to donate all my 'boosters' to the "needy".
That wasn't scrubbed from the internet?
No it wasn't. The whole story is actually worse. Merck knew drug was dangerous and doctors started speaking out against it. Merck actually went as far as to create a hit list of doctors to 'neutralize' which meant to silence.
Merck used ghostwriters and misrepresented data on Vioxx, article says https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/business/worldbusiness/15iht-15merck.12018748.html
Archive to get around paywall (Doesn't work yet.): https://archive.ph/wip/SWOHL
Experts Conclude Pfizer Manipulated Studies https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/health/research/08drug.html
Archive to get around paywall: https://archive.ph/5vk8P
The damn site (theweek.co.uk) demands registration for an "account" to be able to read the whole thing.
Looking for a workaround...
To me this is an interesting intellectual exercise though. If you assumed the government faked statistics, would you notice a bunch of people dying off?
Maybe thats the angle.
Not enough DemoKKKrats are Dying.
THey will still steal the 2022 election, steal the senate, maybe even the house.
500,000 is nothing. They imported 10x that many illegal aliens they'll mail ballots to.