{"id":23040,"date":"2019-05-04T20:27:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T10:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=23040"},"modified":"2019-06-11T19:26:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T09:26:50","slug":"merck-created-hit-list-to-destroy-neutralize-or-discredit-dissenting-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=23040","title":{"rendered":"Merck Created Hit List to &#8220;Destroy,&#8221; &#8220;Neutralize&#8221; or &#8220;Discredit&#8221; Dissenting Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/crosshairs.jpg\" alt=\"Crosshairs\" class=\"wp-image-23041\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Merck made a &#8220;hit list&#8221; of doctors who criticized Vioxx, according to testimony in a Vioxx class action case in Australia. The list, emailed between Merck employees, contained doctors&#8217; names with the labels &#8220;neutralise,&#8221; &#8220;neutralised&#8221; or &#8220;discredit&#8221; next to them. This is the very same Merck who make Gardisil and the MMR vaccine. Savory lot &#8211; not! Beggars belief how ANYONE knowing the type of activity they engage in would think they make anything but a destructive product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/merck-created-hit-list-to-destroy-neutralize-or-discredit-dissenting-doctors\/\">https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/merck-created-hit-list-to-destroy-neutralize-or-discredit-dissenting-doctors\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merck made a &#8220;hit list&#8221; of doctors who criticized Vioxx, according to testimony in a Vioxx class action case in Australia. The list, emailed between Merck employees, contained doctors&#8217; names with the labels &#8220;neutralise,&#8221; &#8220;neutralised&#8221; or &#8220;discredit&#8221; next to them. This is the very same Merck who make Gardisil and the MMR vaccine. Savory lot &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=23040\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Merck Created Hit List to &#8220;Destroy,&#8221; &#8220;Neutralize&#8221; or &#8220;Discredit&#8221; Dissenting Doctors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23042,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23040\/revisions\/23042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}