Ongoing Vioxx trial follies:

Her attorneys had called Dr. Michael Graham as an expert to say that Vioxx could cause blood clots in that short a time and had caused the one that brought on Irvin’s fatal heart attack in 2001.

But U.S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon ruled late Friday that Graham wasn’t qualified to do that. He wrote that the doctor has no pharmacology training, isn’t qualified to explain how Vioxx might cause a blood clot, has never prescribed it, and got most of his knowledge about the drug in an eight-hour review of medical articles, expert reports and trial transcripts.

That’s the best expert the plaintiff can come up with?