If you type in the old Schering-Plough web-address, you immediately land at the completely-revamped "New Merck" site -- which is actually a very well-executed re-design:
More later, perhaps -- but for now, the merger survey link still works.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
A Shiny, Happy New Merck-ified Site Is Online, Now
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For a CafePharma poster, who offered this, in response to one of mine:
Originally Posted by
Anonymous
Good advice, but also let's not forget when the California Attorney General's office brought felony charges against HP for personal-use surveillance of its Board members. HP settled, had to donate $ to a fund to enforce right-to-privacy regulations.
My reply:
True but. . . .
Three key differences between the HP case, and the above CafePharma "monitoring": (1) the "spying" -- through a private investigator; on PRIVATE HOME telephone lines -- was likely a crime, even in the home state of the company [contrast with the company's right to monitor the use of its own assets -- the company-issued computer, and company-issued cellphone -- all making statements in a PUBLIC PLACE like CafePharma]; (2) the use of the THAT surveillance method (the tape-recording of PRIVATE, at-home conversations, over a private home-phone line, without consent or warrant) plainly ALSO violated the law of the jurisdiction where the board member resided, and where the surveillance took place; and (3) [the coup de grace!] as a member of the BOARD, the person surveilled was NOT an employee of the company, and therefore s/he had more lee-way for expressing opinions -- ESPECIALLY ones critical of management, as that is one of the most important FUNCTIONS of an independent board of directors. Oh yeah (almost forgot!) -- (4) It was an HP lawyer who authorized these crimes -- essentially no defense of "ignorance of the law", there.
So -- don't bet the ranch on an "HP defense" here folks, unless you can prove Merck is wiretapping your home phone line [not likely!].
Namaste
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