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The very best journalism from one of Britain's most admired and
outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling Bad Science
and Bad Pharma. In Bad Science, Ben Goldacre hilariously exposed
the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science. In
Bad Pharma, he put the $600 billion global pharmaceutical industry
under the microscope. Now the pick of the journalism by one of our
wittiiest, most indignant and most fearless commentators on the
worlds of medicine and science is collected in one volume.
'Bad Science' hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and
journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy
bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical
industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating,
terrifying mess. Doctors and patients need good scientific evidence
to make informed decisions. But instead, companies run bad trials
on their own drugs, which distort and exaggerate the benefits by
design. When these trials produce unflattering results, the data is
simply buried. All of this is perfectly legal. In fact, even
government regulators withhold vitally important data from the
people who need it most. Doctors and patient groups have stood by
too, and failed to protect us. Instead, they take money and
favours, in a world so fractured that medics and nurses are now
educated by the drugs industry. The result: patients are harmed in
huge numbers. Ben Goldacre is Britain's finest writer on the
science behind medicine, and 'Bad Pharma' is the book that finally
prompted Parliament to ask why all trial results aren't made
publicly available - this edition has been updated with the latest
news from the select committee hearings. Let the witty and
indefatigable Goldacre show you how medicine went wrong, and what
you can do to mend it.
Ben Goldacre's wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the
Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky
statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical
corporations. Since 2003 Dr Ben Goldacre has been exposing dodgy
medical data in his popular Guardian column. In this eye-opening
book he takes on the MMR hoax and misleading cosmetics ads,
acupuncture and homeopathy, vitamins and mankind's vexed
relationship with all manner of 'toxins'. Along the way, the
self-confessed 'Johnny Ball cum Witchfinder General' performs a
successful detox on a Barbie doll, sees his dead cat become a
certified nutritionist and probes the supposed medical
qualifications of 'Dr' Gillian McKeith. Full spleen and satire, Ben
Goldacre takes us on a hilarious, invigorating and ultimately
alarming journey through the bad science we are fed daily by hacks
and quacks.
How do we know whether a particular treatment really works? How
reliable is the evidence? And how do we ensure that research into
medical treatments best meets the needs of patients? These are just
a few of the questions addressed in a lively and informative way in
Testing Treatments. Brimming with vivid examples, Testing
Treatments will inspire both patients and professionals. Building
on the success of the first edition, Testing Treatments has now
been extensively revised and updated. The Second Edition includes a
thought-provoking chapter on screening, explaining why early
diagnosis is not always better. Other new chapters explore how
over-regulation of research can work against the best interests of
patients, and how robust evidence from research can be drawn
together to shape the practice of healthcare in ways that allow
treatment decisions to be reached jointly by patients and
clinicians. Testing Treatments urges everyone to get involved in
improving current research and future treatment, and outlines
practical steps that patients and doctors can take together.
"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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