Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust That Society Needs to Thrive by Bruce Schneier

Author:Bruce Schneier
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Security, Computers, Sociology, Social Science, General
ISBN: 9781118143308
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2012-02-14T05:00:00+00:00

In 2011, the pharmaceutical giant Glaxo Smith-Kline was fined $750 million for marketing drugs manufactured in a Puerto Rican plant whose managers ignored numerous FDA letters warning that products were likely contaminated.

Hundreds of people in Haiti, Panama, and Nigeria died of kidney failure in the 1990s and 2000s after consuming medicinal syrups manufactured with toxic diethylene glycol—an industrial chemical used to make plastics. Economically minded manufacturers had secretly substituted the toxic chemical for the more expensive, but nontoxic, glycerin.

Starting in the mid-1990s, the Ford Motor Company knew that its Explorer model was prone to rollover, but didn't do anything to fix the problem until 2002. Until they did, there were 185 deaths and 700 injuries resulting from the problem.

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