Bad Pharma : How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Paperback)

from vguy

Not quite as much fun as "Bad Science" being very much more serious and more concerned to build an irrefutable case against the pharma industry and its corruption of medicine. Also while one can laugh at quacks and phoneys this is much closer to home. He argues that there is built in distortion i...

from themulhern

It is possible to be so cynical that nothing that Goldacre describes is in the least surprising, but at the same time to be interested in the mechanism. Goldacre is currently making the problems described in this book is life's work. The book is meant to persuade people: patients, doctors and wor...

from PDCRead

Goldacre has a way of making complex science subjects accessible to the wider public. His first book, Bad Science, highlighted the way that the media dealt with reporting science, and in this book he concentrates his ire onto the $600 billion global pharmacy industry, now dominated by a handful o...

from JulesJones

Ben Goldacre is a very angry man, with good reason. In this book he lays out how the pharmaceutical industry has distorted drug research in pursuit of profit, sometimes intentionally, sometimes entirely without malice but with equally devastating effects for patient welfare. This matters because ...

from GlennBell

Ben has alot of good points and appears well researched. It seems a bit alarmist but probably appropriately so. It is an unfortunate state of affairs. Ben also provides suggestions on how to help fix the situation. I recommend the book.