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

842.518 - 863.023 Robert Evans

Now, Dr. Grootman was not being bribed by Merck, nor did he violate the law or medical ethics in any way that I'm aware of other than writing a bad article. He fucked up. And part of why he fucked up was, in my opinion, he was looking to merge developing medical science with magazine pop science in a way that's not wildly different from what Malcolm Gladwell is going to be doing a few years later.