Pfizer: Just like in the movies?

You no doubt by now have heard about the accusation that Pfizer experimented on children in Nigeria in 1996 to test its experimental antibiotic during a Nigerian meningitis epidemic. John Mack at Pharma Marketing has an interesting take on the story, which he compares with a movie with a similar plotline, "The Constant Gardener." Is art imitating life, or vice versa?