Didn't think so, reader.
"Researchers say Vioxx study was marketing" by Associated Press | August 19, 2008
TRENTON, N.J. - A 1999 Merck & Co. study of its since-withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, touted to participating doctors and patients as meant to show whether Vioxx caused fewer stomach problems than another drug, was primarily a stealth marketing strategy, researchers report.
The true purpose was to get lots of doctors and patients in the habit of using Vioxx just in time for its launch. Drug companies are widely suspected of doing many such "seeding," or marketing studies, but there's been no "smoking gun" proving it before, according to the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Sort of like IRAQ, huh?
Like BIG PHARMA would leave something like that lying around!
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But the health giants are WORKING for YOU, AmeriKa!!!!
