I'm with the brilliant professor Sowell on this one. If Vioxx had put a warning on it's label saying stuides had shown an increase risk of heart trouble then people could make an infomred choice.
But they removed it from the market, and the lawyers are lining up clients right now- the worst of the ambulance chasers are advertising (fishing) for clients.
You can test for every possible thing. some things you just cant know until you have 20 years experience.
Michael Moore is LINING up for this...just wait and see how Mr. Moore DESTROYS one of the last American institutions...American Phamecuetical companies and the universities and the researchers that keep this country great...that fat pig won't be happy until every American comapny is forced to do business overseas because of the cost of doing business in a land run and destroyed by lawyers...just costs too damn much!
Let drug companies market a class of drugs with that warning and the clear understanding that there no liability on the part of the manufacturer.
The average life expectancy in the free world has gone up nearly thirty years since pre-WW2 and it is mostly due to the miracle of modern chemistry--
You wonder how many of the excess cases of heart trouble with Vioxx and Celebrex are caused by the fact that the users are not taking asprin, which has been shown to have a protecttive effect.