Comment Re:Part of the problem (Score 2, Insightful) 281
Does Vioxx cause death? Maybe. If the specific formulation of the drug is to blame then why are other drugs with virtually the same formulation still on the market with warnings? Why didn't those drugs also get removed from the market - with similar numbers of deaths behind them as well?
Maybe? Virtually?
The difference of ONE FUCKING MOLECULE is the difference between medicine and poison.
So basically you are saying people clinging on to life with the tenacity that almost all humans display is the real cause of all the evils in the world.
Man, I don't even know what to write, my mind recoils at the twistedness of this post.
"It's a lottery and there are winners and losers. Merck lost. Too bad, I guess."
Heres the problem right here, not old people.
Its a lottery, every now and then the capitalist system needs someone to throw to the masses. Appease the plebs. Distract them from the fact that every company is 100% corrupt, by "catching" one of them every so often.