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Gardiner Harris
@GardinerHarris
Former health, South Asia, White House and diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times
Washington, DC
nytimes.com
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    Gardiner Harris
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    Aug 19, 2024
    1. Twenty years ago, I sat at an airport bar and met a Johnson & Johnson sales rep whose wrenching story led me to do stories that changed federal law and finally to write “No More Tears,” a book about J&J that goes on sale April 8. Pre-order here: rb.gy/9r0119.
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    Gardiner Harris
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    Sep 18, 2018
    I deleted a tweet about curtains installed in the UN ambassador's residence. The story was unfair, and the editors' note speaks for itself.
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    Gardiner Harris
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    Oct 7, 2016
    Marine One lands in downtown Chicago.
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    Gardiner Harris
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    Oct 6, 2016
    The real Elmo stopped by the White House. He really does talk like that.
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    Gardiner Harris
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    Oct 7, 2016
    Obama asked whether the press could see him vote. Held up his hand as shield.
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    Gardiner Harris
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    Oct 7, 2016
    Rahm greets POTUS in Chicago.
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    Gardiner Harris
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    Jan 19, 2017
    John Kerry comes to the final State briefing with his dog, Ben.
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    Gardiner Harris
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    Aug 19, 2024
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    2. I covered J&J for both the WSJ and NYT and knew a deeper dive was needed. So I spent 5 years documenting J&J’s many crimes – by far history’s largest and most ruinous conspiracies that together cost more than 2 million American lives and counting.
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    Gardiner Harris
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    Jun 29, 2018
    Susan Thornton, acting assistant secretary for East Asia, announced in an email to staff today that she is retiring in July. Tillerson tried to get her confirmed but was opposed by Steve Bannon. That fight is done.
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    Gardiner Harris
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    Aug 19, 2024
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    12. That one of the largest and most admired conglomerates secretly victimized millions reveals the system’s corruption and injustice as little Purdue never could. J&J’s story is the quintessential American saga, and this book reveals the real America.
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    Gardiner Harris
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    Aug 19, 2024
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    6. Another medicine became the most widely used drug in cancer because J&J hid evidence that it made tumors grow. Hundreds of thousands died, an ongoing toll made worse by billions in insurance fraud by oncologists and hospitals that J&J helped conceive.
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    Gardiner Harris
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    3. J&J’s American body count far exceeds the combined toll from every American war and military skirmish. Its top executives are responsible for more death and injury than Russian President Vladimir V. Putin, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad or any other living figure.
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    Gardiner Harris
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    Aug 19, 2024
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    5. To keep sales of one pill rising after the FDA warned that it could kill, J&J executives quietly reassured doctors that they would never face legal consequences for killing their patients and then bribed them to keep prescribing it, according to grand jury testimony.
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    Gardiner Harris
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    Aug 19, 2024
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    11. Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers are widely seen as the apotheosis of corporate greed, and the opioid crisis is widely portrayed as both uniquely bad and the worst drug crisis ever. These notions are all wrong, but such myths are peddled to hide more appalling truths.
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