Month: August 2005

Hearing what jurors on the Merck case in Texas had to say about why they awarded for the plaintiff even though her husband died of complications that have not been shown to be related to Vioxx reminds me of a jury I served on at...

by W. Patrick Lang “According to Kurdish and Sunni negotiators, the US ambassador, Zalmay Khalilzad, proposed that Islam be named “a primary source” and supported a wording which would give clerics authority in...

Signs are that in 2008 we–the liberal part of the Democratic community–will again “vote against our interests.” Even though we talk about how we’re against the war, and how the soldiers should come...

Bush compares war with radical Islam, To the war against the Jewish Pogrom. But it’s more aptly compared, In the way we’re ensnared, To the war he ran from… Vietnam. (four more after the fold, plus “The...

That’s the title of a Financial Times article that begins: Wall Street often flocks to Big Pharma as a port in the storm when the markets turn south, but this time round it may be sailing into trouble. Many investors cite...