Secrecy's dangerous side effects

Eli Lilly Zyprexa hush money payout compared to clergy pedophile coverupSecrecy's dangerous side effects
Los Angeles Times, CA 
DRUG GIANT Eli Lilly & Co. recently settled 18000 lawsuits brought by people claiming they were injured by the side effects of its biggest-selling drug.When legal settlements allow companies to hide their mistakes, what we don't know can hurt us. "When secrecy is the price of a legal settlement, wrongdoers hide their mistakes as if they never happened and continue with business as usual. That's what happened in the Lilly case. T he thousands of plaintiffs and dozens of lawyers involved in the 2005 settlements kept their part of the bargain, while Lilly continued to sell Zyprexa in huge quantities — a reported $4.2 billion in sales in 2005 — without warning either patients or doctors about the drug's dangers."http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-zitrin08feb08,1,1764066.story?coll=la-news-comment MORE