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As the investigative medical journalist Jeanne Lenzer reports in her Essay for PLoS Medicine [6], the whistleblowers spoke of public regulatory agencies that are putting the interests of drug companies ahead of the safety of patients, and of pharmaceutical companies that allow their marketing departments to knowingly downplay serious side effects when promoting their drugs.
Although white Americans have tended to ignore or downplay this joyful side of native culture, the fact remains that boisterous name-calling and irrepressible nicknaming was at one time as popular among the so-called Six Nations and five Civilized Tribes as among Big Eight or PAC Ten football fans today.
Unfortunately, though not surprisingly, Fiorina has taken pains to downplay the last fact.
Both the state party and Votation.com downplay any concerns about potential voter fraud.
Other pundits downplay the accusations of treason and malfeasance, noting that Republican presidents were the first to enlist Chinese assistance in launching U.S. satellites (Doyle McManus, PBS's Washington Week in Review ; Eleanor Clift, The McLaughlin Group ).