No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
by Gardiner Harris
View on GoodreadsVeteran journalist Gardiner Harris's investigation of Johnson & Johnson — across baby powder (asbestos contamination), opioid manufacturing, Tylenol cover-ups, surgical mesh, and Risperdal off-label marketing — as a coordinated pattern, not a series of bad-apple incidents.
Core ideas
- The "wholesome family company" brand is treated as the load-bearing strategic asset that allowed the harms — the asbestos-in-talc story specifically required decades of corporate concealment that the brand image protected from suspicion.
- The legal-management apparatus — the law firms, the science-for-hire consultants, the lobbying for tort reform — is mapped as continuous across the cases; the same defenses get used because they work.
- The 2024-2025 bankruptcy-shield maneuvers (the "Texas two-step" to channel asbestos liability into a subsidiary that immediately files Chapter 11) are presented as the latest phase of the same pattern.
Published2025
Pages464
ISBN9780593229866
ReadJun 2025
