Part Two: The Vioxx Scandal: How Big Pharma Killed More Americans Than Vietnam

1458.547 - 1479.601 Robert Evans

And they were deliberately trying to hide that, right? This is all stuff that came out later as a result of the Senate investigation and numerous court cases. So yeah, we know that Merck had a lot of evidence showing this was dangerous and that they deliberately hid it. And we know that this was incredibly profitable for Merck. From 1999 to 2004, Vioxx made them $2.5 billion a year on average.