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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

โœ Scribed by Ben Goldacre; Jonathan Cowley

Book ID
108099273
Publisher
Tantor Media
Year
2012
Tongue
English
Weight
474 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780007350742

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โœฆ Synopsis

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. Patients are harmed in huge numbers. Ben Goldacre is Britains finest writer on the science behind medicine, and Bad Pharma is...

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