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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

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“Smart, funny, clear, unflinching: Ben Goldacre is my hero.” ―Mary Roach, writer of Stiff, Spook, and Bonk

We like to consider that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair testing and clinical trials. In fact, those tests and trials are incessantly profoundly mistaken. We like to consider that doctors who write prescriptions for everything from antidepressants to cancer drugs to heart medication are familiar with the research literature about these drugs, when In fact much of the research is hidden from them by drug companies. We like to consider that doctors are impartially educated, when In fact much of their education is funded by the pharmaceutical industry. We like to consider that regulators have some code of ethics and let only effective drugs onto the market, when In fact they approve useless drugs, with data on side effects casually withheld from doctors and patients.
Some of these problems have been shielded from public scrutiny because they’re too complex to capture in a sound bite. Ben Goldacre shows that the true scale of this murderous disaster fully reveals itself only when the details are untangled. He believes we will have to all be capable of consider precisely how data manipulation works and how research misconduct in the medical industry affects us on a global scale.
With Goldacre’s characteristic flair and a forensic attention to detail, Bad Pharma reveals a shockingly broken system in need of regulation. This is the pharmaceutical industry as it has never been seen before.

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