Reply #2: my subscription has lapsed but...

[amazona]

...unfortunately, despite calling themselves "progressive capitalists," the Wall Street Journal is sometimes guilty of what I can only call the outright invention of stories and even facts.

I would not worry too much about this claim unless I saw it repeated elsewhere. It might well be just the WSJ taking an idle threat from some Big Pharma CEO and blowing it all out of proportion.

Last week they floated a rumor that Senator John Breaux was not going to run for re-election. While I dutifully wrote to Breaux's office and encouraged him to keep his office, I suspect that this was another of their "fun fact" articles. I am not always clear on what they hope to achieve by some of their more fictional stories; I wonder if they know themselves.