Dr. Andrew Wakefield about Merck and Vioxx

"With Merck and Vioxx, the drug that was notoriously unsafe. They knew at the time of licensing that there were problems. It was causing strokes and heart attacks. It was estimated that I think that many hundreds of thousands of people suffered as a consequences of that drug. In the litigation in Australia where Merck were really their heads were on the block about this, they uncovered some in discovery, they uncovered documents which were an exchange between Merck employees about what to do about doctors who criticised, they had these guys saying: We may have to seek them out and destroy them where they live. So these are the kind of people with whom we're dealing."