Bad Pharma

By Ben Goldacre,

Book cover of Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

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"Smart, funny, clear, unflinching: Ben Goldacre is my hero." ā€•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 imagineā€¦

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A best-seller in the UK, it never garnered the attention it deserved in the US. As a trained physician, Goldacre explains why doctors cannot trust the information concerning prescription drugs that is made available to them, and why this should concern every patient. The incentives motivating drug regulators constitute a big part of the problem, but the actual conduct of clinical trials comes in for intensive scrutiny as well. The rigors of double-blinded trials are useless if owners of the data can hide whatever outcomes they donā€™t like. His chapter on how to bend a clinical trial has become aā€¦

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