Lilly is represented by multiple legal firms, one of which is
Covington & Burling. Let's think about it -- Lilly is being sued over Zyprexa for such things as off-label marketing and health risks. Well, C & B knows a little about health risks. They represented Big Tobacco, for which their shining work at helping to conceal the risks associated with smoking and secondhand smoke earned them a
stern reprimand from a judge. They are apparently not ashamed of their work with the
Tobacco Institute (Big Tobacco's former lobbying group), as it is mentioned on
C & B's website. I don't mind looking at their website, as they have visited my site on several occasions.
Below are a few articles you may enjoy regarding Covington & Burling's stalwart representation of Big Tobacco, and how they covertly got involved with the "science" surrounding the health effects of secondhand smoke. I highly advise reading them, then thinking about the current Zyprexa controversy.
So, in line with C & B being intimately involved with the Tobacco Institute and Center for Indoor Air Research, I suggest that they set up something similar for Zyprexa. What do you think of the following?
- Center for Diabetes Studies
- Center for Weight Management Research
- Institute for The Appropriate Marketing of Pharmaceuticals
1 comment:
C and B is also involved with guiding drug policy reform:
http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html
See the 2 articles at the top:
http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-policy-foundation-advised-by-c.html
http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/drug-policy-foundation-legal-connection.html
A proposal exists for a Drug Policy Alliance (the successor organization to the Drug Policy Foundation) for a panel that would include the listed C and B advisor, food, drug and insurance attorney Marialuisa Gallozzi:
http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/08/agrilcultural-politics-of-drug-policy_27.html
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