Paperback. Pub Date :2013-08-29 Pages: 448 Language: English Ben Goldacre puts the 600bn global
pharmaceutical industry under the microscope What he reveals is a fascinating. terrifying mess
*** Now updated with the latest government responses to the.. bookDoctors 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.The result: patients are harmed in ...
