Did you read the whole article?
Yes, I read the whole article. Perhaps I should have made it clear that my disgust was with the way the article was written.
This article presents a bunch of numbers without context, and frequently without a source. Anyone with an agenda can cherrypick data to support a conclusion, and many of them do. Keep in mind that stories like this are frequently fed to reporters by plaintiff's attorneys seeking to generate favorable climates for their lawsuits.
There are numerous legitimate reasons why a drug company might not want to release raw data, not the least of which is that it cost them a lot of money to gather said data, and they are reluctant to make it available to competitors for free. Yes, the research sponsored by the drug companies may be biased the source of funding - but the same thing applies to research sponsored by the FDA or other government agencies (think secondhand-smoke, RU-486, the CDC gun research, etc).
The problem described in this article may be genuine. The article does nothing to convince me of this.