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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients |
If you believe Western medicine is firmly developed along the line of evidence-based science, think again. This extended piece of investigative journalism reveals the comprehensive corruption of this ideal, to the point where selfish business interests seem so endemic, ingrained and even encouraged that it's almost a hopeless case. The author, a GP himself, does offer some basic fixes but in a world where money talks (and talks loudly at that) even these look optimistic.
(Clive Yelf - bwl 68 Spring 2013) |
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Bad Science |
Undoubtedly the most important book I've read in the last 12 months. As in his newspaper column, but with more depth, he examines the claims of newspapers, pharmaceutical companies, health gurus and statisticians with a dispassionate and scientific eye. Ever wondered why everything seems to both cause cancer and prevent it at the same time? Been scared by the MMR vaccine? Been suspicious of 'expert' guests on tv programmes? Then this book is for you . . .
(Clive Yelf - bwl 57 Summer 2010) |
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I Think You'll Find It's A Bit More Complicated Than That |
For over ten years Ben Goldacre had a 'Bad Science' column in The Guardian where he explored dubious claims, extraordinary advertisments and questionable medical statistics and this is a compilation of the best of them. They provide a measured and rational response to the blizzard of half-facts and assertions that seem to be thrown around at random these days and make superb bedtime reading as long as exposing cant and hypocrisy doesn't raise your indignation.
(Clive Yelf - bwl 103 Winter 2022) |
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