The Paxil scandal is an astonishing example of how drug data can be hidden and spun—and then sold to kids. “In the late 90s, the manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline or GSK did a series of trials and found that the drug was no better than placebo. …There was an email that was sent to staff where GSK said that [it] would be commercially unacceptable to disclose the poor efficacy data of this drug. So instead of telling the truth, they hired a PR firm to write the medical journal for them, to ghostwrite t

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