In a note to investors last week, Prudential Equity Group analyst Timothy Anderson wrote that Merck Chief Executive Richard Clark says Vioxx doesn't keep him up at night.
Information Commissioner Richard Thomas's counsel, Timothy Pitt-Payne, said the minutes were the "most important record" that existed "to understand the deliberative process" behind the discussion of Lord Goldsmith's legal advice.
Richard Steinberg of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Timothy Josling of Stanford University have read the statutes and crunched the numbers.