Injury Lawer News on Propecia...

General Discussion Media & Awareness
#1

Good to see Injury Lawyer News hammering away on the Propecia issue:

injurylawyer-news.com/2013/07/pr … e-alcohol/

Note the passages:

“[Merck] is accused of employing an aggressive, direct-to-consumer promotional campaign which misled the public. In 1998, shortly after Propecia won approval from the FDA, Merck purportedly spent $60 million on advertising and sales grew year on year, generating $447 million for the company in 2010 alone.”

“More legal action is expected to be brought against Merck, as men come forward with complaints of serious Propecia side effects.”

It’s funny how Merck insists in interviews that there’s no scientific evidence that finasteride causes PFS. But if they were so certain of that statement, why not issue Injury Lawyer News a cease-and-desist – or sue, even – for publishing statements like “More legal action is expected to be brought against Merck, as men come forward with complaints of serious Propecia side effects”?

I mean, they may not win such a case, but at least they could press their point, and perhaps even dissuade other media outlets from making similar statements.

Or at least Merck could issue a statement to Injury Lawyer News telling its side of the story. That’s why I would do if I were head of corporate communications and knew my company was innocent but was nonetheless being bombarded by possibly defamatory and libelous public statements.

But Merck does not do that because… well, you know.

#2

Yes, obviously Merck and the FDA knows; and they will get away with it.

The people responsible for this, just like the people responsible for Vioxx, have made so much money from their work that even if they get fired they will probably get even more money from a severance package and retire living a luxurious lifestyle. The CEO that resigned from the Vioxx scandal is living very well right now I guarantee you that. I also doubt that Richard Clark and Kenneth Frazier are losing any sleep over the current Propecia scandal right now.

#3

I hope not. It would be nice to see criminal charges in some of these killer-drug cases.

If Jeffrey Skilling, Dennis Kozlowski and Bernie Ebbers can be put behind bars – though no one actually died as a result of their actions – I should think the DOJ can send a Merck exec or two away for a few years.

#4

If anyone goes to jail it’ll probably be some lower level scapegoat. Trust me, they’ll get away with it. Plus, I read some of the Enron CEOs are getting out early.

They’ll never have to endure what we’re going through. Merck, and other big pharma companies, are real world Umbrella corporations, except that even the Umbrella corporation CEOs and employees suffered by their drugs. Real world is less fair than horror story worlds…

#5

In the end it says:
'According to a study conducted in 2003, only 50-59% of men who suffered adverse sexual side effects after taking Propecia “experienced resolution of the adverse events even after discontinuing use of finasteride.” ’

I have never heard of that study. Does anyone know which one is it?

#6

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12639651

Merck’s “defense” will certainly be that there is no ANOVA or any other statistical analysis showing statistical significance between the finasteride and placebo group, therefore causation cannot be established.

What they should know is that ANOVAs and all Fisherian statistics are no longer being considered scientific in many fields.