[GET] Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

[StillStanding]

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 public scrutiny because they are too complex to capture in a sound bite. Ben Goldacre shows that the true scale of this murderous disaster fully reveals itself only when the details are untangled. He believes we should all be able to understand precisely how data manipulation works and how research misconduct in the medical industry affects us on a global scale.

With Goldacre's characteristic flair and a forensic attention to detail, Bad Pharma reveals a shockingly broken system in need of regulation. This is the pharmaceutical industry as it has never been seen before.

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[rangers94]

Great share StillStanding! The fact that the FDA relies on the honesty of the drug companies test results is absolute joke! Do you really think that if a drug has side effects like liver or kidney falure, heart attack, etc., that the drug company would actually put that on their test resuts, knowing full well their drug would be rejected,of course not!

Having the drug company do their own testing on their drug, is like that old cliche, having the wolf guard the hen house.

[srw1958]

Big Parma is called Bad Pharma for a reason! Thanks for the share.

[jolis]

Thanks for your share, very interesting

[StillStanding]

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