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Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs.

 Petersen writes that drug companies push medicines they know don’t work. They invent “diseases,” such as overactive bladder or compulsive shopping disorder, to wring high profits out of marginal medicines. They obfuscate the science by controlling the publication of clinical trial results and writing bogus journal articles. And they shovel millions of dollars to doctors to boost prescriptions. “Selling prescription drugs—rather than discovering them—has become the pharmaceutical industry’s obsession,” Petersen writes.

On that note, how long do we let a company like Eli Lilly with a 100 year history of corporate malfeasance stay in business?

Review in Business Week.