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Slate's Jack Shafer read all 11,700 words of David Willman's report last Sunday in the L.A. Times on the influence of drug companies at the National Institutes of Health -- a story that apparently took five years to report, write and get in the paper. He calls it brilliant, but a flawed masterpiece. Check out his reasoning here.
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'Tainted tour de force'
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