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60 Minutes

CBS’ 60 minutes segment, “The Secrecy Clause” aired December 19, 1999. It exposes the story of how billionaire Barry Sherman threatened Dr. Nancy Olivieri when she raised concerns about the safety of a drug being studied in clinical trials partly supported by Sherman.

This website contains material related to events arising from the controversy involving Barry Sherman’s company Apotex, the University of Toronto, and The Hospital for Sick Children, which began in 1995.

To this day this controversy continues in what the Toronto Star has termed “A Frightening Scandal”, about which we continue to seek answers.

Here are two clear, and frightening, analyses of the important ethical issues of this matter. The first is authored by Professor Arthur Schafer and published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, 2020. The second is an analysis by Dr. David Healy.

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