We’ve been following the saga of MindFreedom and the attempts to make court documents associated with a Zyprexa lawsuit public. Last week, a website was successful in publishing all of the Zyprexa documents online in PDF format. The documents are hefty in number (there were 360 in total!) and would take someone a few days to review in detail and in-depth. Furious Seasons has published about a third of the Zyprexa documents on their website now.

After reviewing some of the documents, it appears they contain more than a few zingers in there that I can understand why a company wouldn’t want made public. The marketing of a pharmaceutical medication is often not pretty and often has little to do with the research and science behind the medication. Defending that medication against an increase of serious negative side effects (including death) is messier still, as these memos and communications show.