ELI LILLY, ELI STONE AND A BRIDGE IN NYC

In light of the uproar over the Eli Stone TV show, we ask, "Why should we trust pharmaceutical companies, federal regulators or the doctors who prescribe drugs?"  (Did you know that Eli Lilly created Thimerosal, the mercury based preservative at the center of the controversy?) Time and again they've sold our health down the river for profit. And we're to believe vaccines are exempt from these practices?  I gotta go polish up a bridge I'm selling.....    From the New York Times:  Lilly Considers $1 Billion Fine to Settle Case

And remember when the government told our elderly citizens that buying drugs from Canada could be unsafe? Also from the Times today:  A huge state-owned Chinese pharmaceutical company that exports to dozens of countries, including the United States, is at the center of a nationwide drug scandal after nearly 200 Chinese cancer patients were paralyzed or otherwise harmed last summer by contaminated leukemia drugs.

Last week, The New York Times asked the F.D.A. whether the Shanghai Pharmaceutical Group exported to the United States any drugs or pharmaceutical ingredients other than the abortion pill. But after repeated requests, the agency declined to provide that information; it did not cite a reason.  Tainted Drugs Tied to Maker of Abortion Pill