As you may have seen, a Reuters journalist published an article today Propecia. The article explains how court secrecy prevented information about Propecia’s risks from reaching the public. Some of that information still remains sealed but a lot was made public today.
The journalist also wrote a similar article last month about how court secrecy kept risks about opioids under wraps for decades and contributed to thousands of deaths. Now a subcommittee within the House Judiciary Committee will be holding a hearing later this month about court secrecy. I think Propecia may come up because it is one of the two special reports published on court secrecy so far.
Does anybody have any thoughts about what we can do to make a bigger impact for the upcoming hearing? I have included a link to the subcommittee that will be holding the hearing. My initial thought is to check and see if any of the Congresspeople on the committee represent your district that you can write them letters to let them know your story and ask them to pay close attention to the testimony. There are 20 members on the subcommittee so there’s a good chance that at least a few members here will be constituents of these representatives. Any ideas anyone?
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