US judge dismisses $50m damages in Vioxx lawsuit

Tobacco industry statements in the US Department of Justice lawsuit.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Over the last half century, the tobacco industry has earned billions of dollars in profits by selling a deadly and addictive product while denying its harmfulness. As criticism of the industry has accelerated in recent years, and calls for product regulation have grown, tobacco companies have defended themselves by saying they are now “responsible” corporations that aim to com...

Merck's Actions Surrounding Vioxx

Abdul Moiz Khan The problems of the overwhelming amount of medical literature have been thoughtfully highlighted in the PLoS Medicine editorial “Drowning or Thirsting: The Extremes of Availability of Medical Information” [1]. It is of vital importance to medical professionals that they improve on their skills of sifting through the huge amounts of literature that are made available to them ever...

Lessons from the Vioxx Debacle: What the Privatization of Science Can Teach Us About Social Epistemology

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The fallout from Vioxx.

Building a 50M Corpus of Tajik Language

Paper presents by far the largest available computer corpus of Tajik Language of the size of more than 50 million words. To obtain the texts for the corpus two different approaches were used. The paper brings a description of both of them, discusses their advantages and disadvantages and shows some statistics of the two respective partial corpora. Then the paper characterizes the resulting join...