Local Author – No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson

Independent journalist Gardiner Harris takes a serious look at the stark dark underbelly of our healthcare system in his book No More Tears, the dark secrets of Johnson & Johnson to be published in April. Johnson & Johnson, recently paid $8.9 billion to settle law suits filed by victims and families who had used Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder that contained cancer causing asbestos, which the company knew about as early as the 1950s. Harris: “Few people understand what goes on in the US healthcare system. Many may think that the Sacklers and Perdue Pharmacy, the company that originated Oxy-Contin that fueled the opioid crisis, as the worst example of corporate corruption in medicine but they pale in comparison to what Johnson & Johnson, one of the most corrupt and deadly companies, is doing.”

Gardiner, now a consultant, worked for over 20 years as a newspaper journalist with the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times as a White House correspondent and foreign correspondent. The book is a result of his many years of deep reporting. Harris: “It is a story mainstream journalism has not been able to tell because of the reach and influence of Johnson & Johnson.” Brave.

Gardiner, a Del Mar resident, has come full circle. Son of T George Harris, founding Editor of Psychology Today, the magazine that got its start right here in the offices along Camino Del Mar in the late 1960s early 1970s, Gardiner grew up in La Jolla until he family moved East when the magazine was moved to New York City.

How will the book exposing Johnson & Johnson’s secrets and the pressures from the big business on our healthcare system, our doctors, ourselves be received by corporations, by us?

Preorder on Amazon.com.