Merck developed a drug to serve as an aspirin alternative for arthritis sufferers. Somewhere along the line, they discovered it could kill you, but pushed the e

Merck developed a drug to serve as an aspirin alternative for arthritis sufferers. Somewhere along the line, they discovered it could kill you, but pushed the evidence under the rug because they had already invested so much. The drug went on to get FDA approval (a process highly dependent on studies conducted by the manufacturer seeking approval, such that they had the opportunity to commit the fraud), and in the end between 50-500k individuals got heart attacks and other deadly consequences as a result of taking the highly prescribed painkiller.