Archive for August, 2008
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Merck, Vioxx, science, and marketing
In case you missed the story, Merck recalled Vioxx, a painkiller that killed as many as 60,000 Americans. In one of those ironies that make you faint, Merck got away with just a few billion dollars in settlement because almost all the victims were either elderly or out of shape or had other illnesses, that [...]
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Italian wine in a box
There is a strong argument being made why you should buy wine in a box rather than a bottle unless you have a very strong reason to do so, like, you want to age a wine or the wine that you absolutely must drink for whatever reason is not available in a box (in that [...]
