The below is from page 47 (full-text PDF link) of Merck's just-released Global Corporate Responsibility Report:
. . . .In 2010, Merck plans to publish on our website a list of policy positions being advocated within state legislatures in the U.S. . . .
I do wonder whether such a required "sunshine" disclosure might have been enough "antiseptic" -- to help avoid the odd and mis-shapen Florida requirement that non-US born girls and women be vaccinated with Gardasil®, or face deportation (background in that link).
Clearly the vaccine has its place -- but I do feel the overly-zealous drive to mandate it -- in the states, more than occasionally through Merck's governmental affairs offices -- has lead to some truly awful legal outcomes.
Outcomes like this one.
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