A damning portrait ... Comprehensively reported and researched ... Harris’ book provides a valuable history that’s not limited to Johnson & Johnson, and helps for a broader understanding of today’s health care system.
Harris, who has dug deeply into these narratives, is particularly good at showing how...corporate money can support but also corrupt science, and how corporate alliances with government can mean progress but also collusion ... At an especially salient moment, when so many regulatory protections are being dismantled, the book offers proposals.
Meticulously reported ... J&J has had few better friends than its regulator: the FDA. Harris’s condemnation of the agency is relentless; he details the ways he believes it’s been captured by the industry it should be overseeing ... Offer[s] a sweeping indictment of the status quo.