Thanks, I hadn't read this before. For those that haven't read it, here's Levesons article on the Therac-25: http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf
This one made me think about public outrage against tobacco companies. One minor theme in this article is that AECL denied knowledge of any reports of Therac-25 malfunctions even when, looking at a timeline of publicly-known events, such ignorance might be described as "implausible". They don't seem to have been punished for this, and while I agree that it isn't laudable I also agree that it's not the greatest infrac…
Didn't the tobacco companies also spend money to discredit scientists and peer-reviewed articles and seed misinformation about the real risks of smoking, all while they were sitting on that mortality data? I think that was the real problem.