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 book Doctors & patients need good scientific evidence to make informed decisions But instead companies run bad trials on their own drugs which distort & 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 & patient groups have stood by too & failed to protect us Instead they take money & favours in a world so fractured that medics & nurses are now educated by the drugs industry The result patients are harmed in huge numbers Ben Goldacre is Britain's finest writer on the science behind medicine & Bad Pharma' is the book that finally prompted Parliament to ask why all trial results aren't made publicly available
- this edition has been updated with the latest news from the select committee hearings Let the witty & indefatigable Goldacre show you how medicine went wrong & what you can do to mend it