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

1560.541 - 1580.698 Robert Evans

Now, that latter verdict was lowered quite a bit due to a Texas law, but it would be fair to call this a massive victory against Merck. And much of the case against Merck hinged on the fact that in June of 2000, Merck had provided a tranche of early user data to the FDA that revealed Vioxx users had four times as many heart attacks as people on naproxen. They didn't state this, though.