Beck and Herrmann ask some pointed questions about principal-agent problems in plaintiff-side litigation.
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- A depressing book on antidepressants?In yesterday's WSJ, Mark Herrmann of Drug & Device Law Blog fame reviews what he depicts as a lamentably one-sided treatment of the controversy over alleged side effects of Prozac and other antidepressants: "Side Effects" [by Alison Bass] belongs to...Walter Olson
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