"When reporter Gardiner Harris met a woman at an airport bar whose entire family has been shattered by her nephew's use of the drug Risperdal, one she sold to his doctor as a drug sales rep, he began to wonder how many similar stories are out there. This was in 2004, and since then, Harris has been investigating one of the largest players in Big Pharma, continuously reporting on it despite simultaneous landmark journalistic accomplishments, like exposing the extremely toxic mining conditions ignored by coal companies. For decades, pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson was seen as a paragon of ethical conduct, especially considering the company's child-friendly products like baby powder and tearless shampoo. However, Harris has uncovered reams of evidence of deceitful and dangerous corporate practices that reveal a historic threat to the health of the American public. He covers several disasters: tissue death caused by J & J's touted hip replacements, their coverup of baby powder's linkage to cancer, the teen-directed marketing of the life-altering drug Risperdal, and more. The Hatch-Waxman Bill, which is meant to pave the way for lower-priced generic drugs, passed in 1984, and inadvertently created loopholes in the drug approval process which allowed urgency and profit maximization to take precedence over diligence and patient protection. Johnson & Johnson's subsequent lack of oversight, money-grubbing, and flat out lies have resulted in the death or serious injury of millions of people. To many, the peril of falsified science seems distant, but Harris reveals how a combination of misrepresented data and bribe culture directly impact doctors' decisions -- which are devastatingly revealed to be not at all in the interests of patients."-- Provided by publisher.