When you go to your doctor do you assume he/she prescribes medicines to you based on what the best thing is to fix what is wrong with you? Or maybe they prescribe just what the best deal is for the NHS? Some doctors do one or both, many don't. A lot of doctors fall foul of the corporate megalith known as 'Big Pharma' and it's massive marketing machine. Many doctors are willing participants working with the Big Pharma machine because they get to go to Acapaulco and drink free cocktails. Having worked for a good while - much to my eternal shame - for Big Pharma, I was so glad to see the new book Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre published. It pours withering fire on a multi-billion pound industry that exists to pay its own greedheads rather than find effective and reasonably priced cures to human diseases. Don't be surprised if we hear about Ben Goldacre being found dead in a skip somewhere...
Ben Goldacre: 'My new book Bad Pharma is out today. It describes how drug companies harm patients, around the world, by distorting evidence on an industrial scale. More than that, it shows how doctors, academics, and regulators have all failed to fix these problems. Bad practices have been perpetuated, because the public have not understood the true scale of the disaster. If this book is not ignored, it will make certain current public positions from industry, and from regulators, untenable. That will be the beginning of fixing the problem, and for the rest, I need your help.' (Bad Science article).
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