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Merck's Deleted Data

Posted by Zonk on from the shouldn't-have-used-office dept.

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'"

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  1. Re:ugh by lbrandy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I know this thread is going to turn into a huge gripe on massive corporations and how corrupt and evil and bad they are... but... considering the company is being publicly humilated, it's stock is trading at half the price it was a 2 years ago, and it's hemorrhaging jobs. I think it's fair to say the free market is correctly punishing this big business that is supposedly "running the world". But that's just me.

  2. Re:ugh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    And, BTW - it's not the corporation that's corrupt and evil, it's the people at the top of the corporations, who are immune to the evil that they do, unless they make mistakes in covering up their deeds.