Bad Pharma, 9780007498086
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Big Pharma hides data, distorts results, harms patients. Wake up.

Bad Pharma

how medicine is broken, and how we can fix it

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  • Paperback

    448 pages

  • Release Date

    30 September 2013

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Summary

Bad Pharma: Exposing the Dark Side of the Pharmaceutical Industry

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 gr…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780007498086
ISBN-10:000749808X
Author:Ben Goldacre
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:Fourth Estate Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:448
Release Date:30 September 2013
Weight:440g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 35mm
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Critics Review

‘This is a book to make you enraged – properly, bone-shakingly furious – because it’s about how big business puts profits over patient welfare, allows people to die because they don’t want to disclose damning research evidence, and the tricks they play to make sure doctors do not have all the evidence when it comes to appraising whether a drug really works or not. A work of brilliance.’ Max Pemberton, Daily Telegraph

‘This is a brilliant piece of work’ Evening Standard, William Leith

‘This is an important book. Ben Goldacre is angry, and by the time you put ‘Bad Pharma’ down, you should be too.’ New Statesman

‘Nailing the compromise between too much detail and too little, Goldacre’s brilliantly enraging study unpeels how the pharmaceutical giants routinely misrepresent science in their quest for profit.’ Sunday Telegraph

‘What keeps you turning its pages is the accessibility of Goldacre’s writing … his genuine, indignant passion, his careful gathering of evidence and his use of stories, some of them personal, which bring the book to life.’ Luisia Dilner, Guardian

‘This is a book that deserves to be widely read, because anyone who does read it cannot help feeling both uncomfortable and angry.’ Economist

‘’Bad Pharma’ will confirm his status as a thorn in the side of the medical Establishment – Goldacre’s detailed research would be hard for any drug-company executive to contradict’ Lois Rogers, Sunday Times

About The Author

Ben Goldacre

Ben Goldacre is a doctor and science writer who wrote the ‘Bad Science’ column in the Guardian from 2003 to 2011. His work focuses on unpicking the evidence behind misleading claims from journalists, the pharmaceutical industry, alternative therapists, and government reports. He has made a number of documentaries for BBC Radio 4, and his first book Bad Science reached Number One in the nonfiction charts, has sold 400,000 copies, and has been translated into 17 languages. His second bestselling book, Bad Pharma, was published in 2013.

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