I don’t see how we can say that pharmaceuticals don’t have serious safety issues. Consider Vioxx: > Merck withdrew the drug after disclosures that it withheld

I don’t see how we can say that pharmaceuticals don’t have serious safety issues. Consider Vioxx: > Merck withdrew the drug after disclosures that it withheld information about rofecoxib's risks from doctors and patients for over five years, allegedly resulting in between 88,000 and 140,000 cases of serious heart disease.