I'll begin by saying that I am a Merck stockholder. Having said that, I get upset at this litigious society in which we live. Peragro raises some good points. These are businesses whose goal is to make money for their shareholders AND to produce a product that will improve the quantity and quality of our lives.

Merck was not forced to pull Vioxx off the market or to announce their internal findings. The FDA approved this drug after very rigorous trials and testing. I wonder if Merck's executives weren't questioning their own sanity after voluntarily opening themselves up to the hell and expenses they've suffered thus far. It appears to me they did the morally right thing. And now the American Trial Lawyers Association and others are punishing them for trying to behave ethically. What kind of message is that? No wonder companies try to hide things like this!

The other companies making this same class of drug have now pulled their competing products off the market, too. Merck seems to be taking most of the heat, though.

Does anybody else see the irony in all of this?

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