Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (941 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0865478007 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Another killer blow from the pen of Dr. Goldacre Guy Chapman It is a common claim among alt med cranks that skeptics are only critical of alternative medicine. This is not and has never been true - most of Bad Science is about "Big Pharma" and its shenanigans, but this latest book by Ben Goldacre goes a lot further.In "B. The Upton Sinclair of Pharma. OSS architect Dr Goldacre is an Epidemiologist, as am I. Or was. I changed fields because I saw examples, first hand, of what Dr Goldacre exposes in his book. Proper clinical trials are very difficult and expensive to do. You get obvious bad data in the raw observations, sam. Martin Orsted said A tough reality check on drug companies and legislation. Bad Pharma highlights serious issues with the way the pharmaceutical industry works today. In the book Ben highlights the problems with the industry from several angles, how the tests can be tweaked, how negative tests are not published, how you can make a neut
He also reports that drug companies spend twice as much on marketing and advertising as on researching and developing new drugs. --Karen Springen . They “sponsor” trials, which tend to yield favorable results, while negative results often remain unreported. From Booklist In the follow-up to his popular Bad Science (2010), British medical doctor Goldacre reveals how pharmaceutical companies mislead doctors and hurt patients. Goldacre’s essential exposé will prompt readers to ask more questions before automatically popping a doctor-prescribed pill. Unfortunately for U.S. readers, he
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. But Ben Goldacre shows that the true scale of this murderous disaster fully reveals itself only when the details are untangled. All these problems have been shielded from public scrutiny because they're too complex to capture in a sound bite. With Goldacre's characteristic flair and a forensic attention to detail, Bad Pharma reveals a shockingly broken system and calls for regulation. In reality, those tests and trials are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair testing and clinical trials. This is the pharmaceutical industry as it has never been seen before.. 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 a drug, wh