A Janssen Pharmaceuticals official and the statistician who recently conducted a hotly contested reanalysis of data purportedly linking Risperdal to gynecomastia were “hoagie buddies,” according to the plaintiff’s attorney in the ongoing Risperdal-related case.

To illustrate that point, Thomas R. Kline of Kline & Specter, who is representing plaintiff Timothy Stange in Stange v. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, read portions of emails between the statistician, Warren Bilker, and a Janssen official who had been tasked with helping to find a researcher to perform the reanalysis of data that first appeared in a 2003 medical article.

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