Fearful that Vioxx label warnings would hurt sales, Merck fought the FDA, according to internal e-mails shown to jurors Wednesday in which Scolnick blasted regulators as "bastards.""You were FANTASTIC," he wrote to his Vioxx development team in a Feb. 8, 2001 e-mail, after a Merck presentation to an FDA advisory committee.
"You made them look like grade D high school students."
When a colleague called the proposed warning "ugly" in an e-mail, Scolnick responded: "It is ugly cubed. They are bastards."
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