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Bad Pharma

By: Ben Goldacre
Narrated by: Jot Davies
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Summary
 Goldacre uncovers a shockingly corrupt industry in a passionate and accessible manner. His genuine and thorough research brings to light some revelatory tales of the Pharmaceutical industry and investigates the motives behind our treatments.

Following the bestselling Bad Science, which mercilessly exposed the evils of bogus, pseudo-scientific remedies, Ben Goldacre puts the global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope

The $600 billion pharmaceutical industry spends more on marketing than it does on research and development. It distorts and suppresses the results of clinical trials if they are unfavourable. New diseases are invented in order to swell profits.
Doctors are kept in the dark about which drugs are the best for their patients. Patients’ pressure groups are covertly sponsored by pill manufacturers.
Authoritative-looking journals can be nothing more than disguised advertising brochures. Papers, supposedly by respected academics, are in fact ghostwritten by drugs companies.

The offences are countless and the consequences are felt by us all. What we trust to cure us may be utterly ineffectual or actually harmful.©2012 Ben Goldacre (P)2012 W F Howes Ltd Biological Sciences Physics Science Witty
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Excellent book. Meticulously researched and very clearly presented. And the revelations are quite shocking! Highly recommended!

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Interesting and insightful.
Concerning
Easy to listen
Whistleblowing
I enjoyed the book very much
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Insightful

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it was a little bit tooin-depth, all doctors and medical students need to read this book.

I will never look at medications the same again

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kudos to goldacre for having the Kahunas to lay out the endemic and complex problem of big pharma in medical practice, literature, education and beyond

Brave and defiant book

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It's a well thought out and eye opening book. As Ben progressed through the horrible things going in the the medical industry at the moment, it just got more intense. Heavy information through out the chapters. But don't worry as after each chapter, he summarises and suggests ways we could progress in a positive direction. Brilliant book, definitely worth a look.

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