The way corporations work: Bottom line over health of people

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Should there ever be any doubt about how America's corporations have learned to conduct business? If they can get away with murder, they will try their hardest...

The breast implant manufacturer's were some of the country's best teachers in the art of obfuscation, much to their shame. So far, they've gotten away with their deception pretty darn well. Americans need to wake up! Our protection from corporate greed is almost totally absent!

http://news./s/ap/20050926/ap_on_bi_ge/vioxx_litigation

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Fearing a warning about Vioxx's cardiac risks would hurt the painkiller's sales, Merck & Co. battled with federal regulators for two years to keep the information out of the "warnings" section of the package insert, the company's top marketing official testified Monday.

Under questioning by plaintiff's attorney Seeger, W. Anstice acknowledged Merck forecast a $500 million drop in sales for the $2.5 billion-a-year blockbuster drug if Merck lost its bid to instead put information about heart attack risks in the insert's less-urgent "precautions" section.

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