In March, Harper's magazine, ordinarily classy, bohemian, and reliably well written and reported, went ape. The venerable journal published an account of clinical drug trials that was more baleful (and more fantastic) than that painted by John le Carré in his 2000 novel The Constant Gardener, where pharmaceutical companies and governments murderously collude to hide the truth about an experimental drug.

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