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There was also a significant financial incentive for drug companies to partner with Grunenthal. It meant that they could “avoid the cost of research, development, and testing.”10 And for Grunenthal itself, by not performing proper clinical trials on humans it saved a ton of money.
Shane Parrish • The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug

Did Stacey and her children have to adapt to technology by leaving their farm, or did fracking have to adapt to the communities that preceded it? The Pennsylvania Supreme Court came down firmly in favor of individual rights and community, over the rights of the extractive industry.
Eliza Griswold • Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
Exploiting energy often involves exploiting people. In Amity and Prosperity, as elsewhere, resource extraction has long fed a sense of marginalization and disgust, both with companies that undermine the land and with the urbanites who flick on lights without considering the miners who risk their lives to power them. Today, the fracking boom has rei
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The federal judge went ballistic at sentencing since I pled guilty to the state cases. . . . I was sentenced to 60 years. Not proper, appropriate, fair. . . . I tried to avoid a trial to save the stress to this community, my family, the victims, yet look what is happening. . . . I was a good doctor because my treatments worked, and those patients t
... See moreRachael Denhollander • What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics
(In the face of overwhelming documentary evidence and testimony, the Justice Department would later acknowledge the so-called gunwalking campaign and would admit to having given false information to Congress. The story would become the investigative reporting story of the year, receiving an Emmy and the Edward R. Murrow Award.) The Justice Departme
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