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1. November 29, 2012 06:50 AM

   Audit Notes: WaPo on Avandia, giving away the store, plutocrats

   Report shows how drug research is corrupted by corporate money

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Washington Post's Peter Whoriskey has another outstanding story in his series on the Avandia drug scandal at GlaxoSmithKline and what it says about the corruption of our system for testing the safety and efficacy of drugs. Years ago, the government funded a larger share of such experiments. But since about the mid-1980s, research funding by pharmaceutical firms has exceeded...

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2. January 25, 2012 06:36 PM

   The Journal Takes Us Inside the Google Drugs Sting

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Wall Street Journal has an excellent page-one story today on how federal agents caught Google deliberately breaking the law so it could make money off sites selling drugs online. That case ended with a settlement in which Google avoided criminal prosecution by paying the feds more than half a billion dollars. The Journal's leder traces how the government employed...

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3. June 10, 2011 11:41 AM

   Writing The War On Drugs

   Why do so few American papers report on the trade in their backyard?

   By Javier Garza Ramos

   What if American law enforcement agents arrested more than six hundred drug dealing suspects in more than twenty cities across the country in just two days and nobody noticed? On February 24, that’s exactly what happened as raids targeted drug gangs in cities all over the United States. In two days, 676 people were arrested and authorities confiscated $12 million,...

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