A Book that Proves Truth is Stranger than Fiction!


If Upton Sinclair’s purpose in writing his exposé of the meat packing industry was to “set forth the breaking of human hearts by a system which exploits the labor of men and women for profit,” No More Tears, Gardiner Harris’ staggering revelatory book, shines a bright light on Big Pharma, focusing on Johnson & Johnson’s and their competitors’ hunger for industry dominance, power, and profits with barely an afterthought for the health and lives of men, women, children, and the elderly who were prescribed their products, and if the almost unbelievable story doesn’t just break readers’ hearts, it will ensure skepticism for feckless government regulatory agencies and their problematic revolving door of appointments with those they have been charged with regulating.  

Reading No More Tears may well create outrage at the legacy of powerful “careless people” that makes this F. Scott Fitzgerald Gatsby passage shimmer with the shared theme of zero accountability: “They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made..." Johnson & Johnson personified a careless collective in their approach to business that, so wide was the scope of their overreach, they dismantled and smashed the worthy tenets their business was originally founded upon, eschewing ethics to worship at the colossus of corporate avarice. They will likely be paying quite a price for it long into the future. Once you start this book, it’s hard to stop reading!

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