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Merck's Deleted Data
An anonymous reader wrote to mention a Forbes article describing a drug study tampering proven by software. From the article: "A top editor of The New England Journal of Medicine says that he was stunned to find out that data linking Vioxx to cardiovascular risk was deleted from a major study his journal published five years ago--and that it appears that Merck researchers may have deleted that data ... When you hover the cursor over the editing changes, the identity of the editor pops up, and it just says 'Merck'"
And how many people had their health sacrificed to get us to this point? For that matter, what punishment is occurring to those who did the evil deeds? Nope, the free market is doing too little to late, as always.
Oh please tell me of the magical place (and substance) where the economic paradigm is capable of pre-emptively stopping bad people from doing bad things. Tell me more! I want to know of the amazingly perfect economic system whereby bad people are stopped, BEFORE they do bad things.
Guess what, when people are getting hurt because of others stupidity, EVERY measure of correction is "too little too late". That is a fact of reality.. and blaming that on a particular concept (ie, the "free market") is completely and totally irrational.