Cosmic Iguana - Voice of the Evil Doers

How many times have we heard this kind of story? REUTERS:

...Dr. Dennis Mangano, the study's researcher, said during the program that 22,000 lives could have been saved if Trasylol had been taken off the market when he first published his study in January 2006, according to a CBS News report on its Web site ahead of a broadcast slated for next Sunday.

He said in the broadcast that Bayer failed to disclose to the FDA during an FDA advisory panel meeting in September 2006 -- at which Mangano's negative findings were discussed -- that the German drugmaker had conducted its own research which confirmed the same dangers established by his study... [*]

But they don't have to do a study to know that most times a couple of more years profit before getting caught are worth a few tens of millions in lawsuits by the survivors. That's been the M.O. with GM, Firestone Tires, countless drug manufacturers and if you think about it, the Bush Administration itself - screw 'em as long as you can and pay what you have to (if anything) later.