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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.
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Bad Pharma

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    A Paperback / softback by Ben Goldacre

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      Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Publication Date: 01/04/2014
      ISBN13: 9780865478060, 978-0865478060
      ISBN10: 0865478066
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      Book Synopsis

      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 pub

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