There may be hope yet for an organic treatment:
ebm.sagepub.com/content/early/20 … 3.abstract
The Wall Street Journal’s coverage here:
That’s pretty cool
ANY treatment that does not involve Kenneth C. Frazier is pretty cool.
Don’t want that psychopath anywhere near America’s health care system.
Its not just Merck and its not just Frazier, its the fact that any human organization is going to be prone to inhumane and destructive behaviours when those behaviours inevitably benefit members of that organization.
All companies are guilty of this, some religions, governments, even non-for-profits. When people get together behind a common goal, it is inevitably going to hurt other people in one way or another.
The question hence becomes when does the evil they do, outweigh any good that they might do?
Agreed. But just because some organization deems ITSELF OK to kill a few people for some “greater good” of, say, saving the lives of many more people, federal governments need to step in and say:
“Nope. You can’t do that. And while we’re at it, you’re going to jail for killing those few people.”
Or in the case of Vioxx, 30,000 people.
Osama bin Laden killed 3,000 people on 9/11. And America spent a decade hunting him down.
Merck killed 30,000 people and America does nothing.
Please explain that to me.
Meanwhile, let’s hope Merck’s Hannibal Buress moment comes sooner than later.