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Bad Pharma - How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Paperback)
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Bad Pharma - How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Paperback)
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"Smart, funny, clear, unflinching: Ben Goldacre is my hero." --Mary
Roach, author of "Stiff," "Spook," and "Bonk
"We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the
results of fair testing and clinical trials. In reality, those
tests and trials are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine
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 reality
much of the research is hidden from them by drug companies. We like
to imagine that doctors are impartially educated, when in reality
much of their education is funded by the pharmaceutical industry.
We like to imagine that regulators have some code of ethics and let
only effective drugs onto the market, when in reality they approve
useless drugs, with data on side effects casually withheld from
doctors and patients.
All these problems have been shielded from public scrutiny because
they are 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 should all be
able to understand 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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