Sold as safe
Products people were told were safe or healthy, where documents later showed harm or misrepresentation.
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Sold as safe · 2009-02-01 · Art Van Zee, MD, American Journal of Public Health, 2009
"A consistent feature in the promotion and marketing of OxyContin was a systematic effort to minimize the risk of addiction." "On May 10, 2007, Purdue Frederick Company Inc ... along with 3 company executives, pled guilt…
Sold as safe · 2008-04-16 · Ross, Hill, Egilman & Krumholz, JAMA, 2008
Documents describe "Merck marketing employees developing plans for manuscripts, contracting with medical publishing companies to ghostwrite manuscripts, and recruiting external, academically affiliated investigators to b…
Sold as safe · 2007-01-18 · Krumholz, Ross, Presler & Egilman, BMJ, 2007
After VIGOR results circulated, Merck's chief scientist emailed: "It is a shame but it is a low incidence and it is mechanism based as we worried it was." The authors say the published VIGOR report counted gastrointestin…
Sold as safe · 1946-01-01 · Stanford Research into the Impact of Tobacco Advertising (SRITA) ad archive
R.J. Reynolds "paid for surveys to be conducted during medical conventions": doctors "were gifted free packs of Camel cigarettes at tobacco company booths" and then asked their favorite brand or what they carried. "All o…
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