Larry Sinclair gained some noteriety when he put up a YouTube video earlier this year and spun a pretty outrageous tale that involved cocaine, Barack Obama and oral sex, not necessarily in that order. All this from an admitted felon, drug dealer and smuggler of illegal aliens. Needless to say, Sinclair has a slight credibility problem, which a few people have pointed out on various blogs and Web sites, including Democratic Underground. So what does this have to do with us here at Public Citizen? Well, it boils down to a free speech issue. Sinclair didn’t take kindly to some of his online critics and has filed a defamation suit against a couple of them. Public Citizen is defending one of the online critics, as well as the Democratic Underground.
Archive for April 16th, 2008
There was a scathing indictment of Merck in yesterday’s Journal of the American Medical Association. Sadly, it’s not a great shock to hear that the pharmaceutical company held back important information about deaths related to Vioxx or that it practiced widespread scientific fraud. David Brown’s story, “Maker of Vioxx is accused of deception,” in the Washington Post has the details. It’s also not surprising to hear the JAMA editors say that this the norm and not the exception when it comes to the pharma industry.
