The Zyprexa Chronicles: Fear Of Linkage

One of the oddest situations I have seen in the blogosphere has cropped up around this blog of late. Other blogs fear linking to my site, especially to posts on the Zyprexa documents, I have learned through communicating with some fellow mental health bloggers. No names.

The deal is that everyone seems to be buffaloed by the federal court order earlier this month relating to the Zyprexa documents and that linking to my posts creates a scenario wherein people think they could get jammed up by Judge Weinstein and Eli Lilly's legal beagles for disseminating the documents. Weinstein's ruling clearly states that if you aren't specifically named in the injunction, then you can do as you please both with the documents and with linkage. Lilly won't be very happy but as long as you ain't speaking untruths about the Zyprexa situation, then the company cannot monkey with you. It just wants you to think that it can.

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the whole point of blogs and the Web 2.0 about going around traditional media outlets that ignore important issues and pointing out the flaws of major corporations with whom you might disagree?