Although the global credit crisis has had a major impact on the car industry, Dennis is determined to plough ahead with his plans for a revolutionary new sports car.
Peto writes that "any competent trial statistician" would back his conclusions and says that Vytorin's makers, Merck and Schering-Plough, do not pay his salary and had no impact on the decision to conduct his analysis or on how the analysis was conducted (see Peto's letter).