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Tony Lyons: “Something like 50,000 people, maybe many more, died…”

Featuring: Tony Lyons, President and Publisher of Skyhorse Publishing | New York

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Book Publisher, TONY LYONS, CEO of Skyhorse Publishing, on defending the FIRST Amendment

Published | Video Starts at 29:21

So they do everything they can to get to that result. And if you look at the transcripts of the Vioxx trials, where, you know, Something like 50,000 people, maybe many more, died unnecessarily of heart attacks [due to Vioxx]. you know, you come to a conclusion that is really, really scary, and that's that the science that's being done now isn't being done to get to scientific truth or … (29:21–29:29)

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Asserts that Vioxx caused unnecessary deaths of approximately 50,000 people or more.

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