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Ben goldacre is britains finest writer on the science behind medicine, and bad pharma is the book that finally prompted parliament to ask why all trial results arent made publicly available this edition has been updated with the latest news from the select committee hearings. This work is licenced under the creative commons attributionnoncommercialno derivative works 3. This long piece is an excerpt from goldacres forthcoming book, bad pharma. Their distribution among the pharmacological classes in recent years is shown in the diagram alongside. Feb 14, 20 ben goldacre is now on a north american tour promoting his book, bad pharma, his expose of the pharmaceutical industry. In reality, those tests are often profoundly flawed.
Corporate governance council principles and recommendations. How medicine is broken, and how we can fix it kindle edition. That is the shocking reality laid bare in ben goldacres new book, bad pharma. But bad science had a much easier case to make, with much softer targets, than does bad pharma. If side effects occur, the infusion should be slowed or stopped until the symptoms subside. Advanced book information pharmaceutical press major reference work isbn. Goldacres ted talk on the issues in bad science has had over 1. I write about dodgy claims from politicians, quacks, big pharma, and journalists.
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