Goldacre, B: Bad Pharma -

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Résumé :
A new book from the author of Bad Science, in which Goldacre exposes the pharmaceutical industry. He finds a ?600 billion industry in which more money is spent on marketing than on research and development, where the results of clinical trials of new drugs are massaged, and in which regulators fail to regulate. Papers supposedly by respected academics are ghostwritten by drug companies, and patients' pressure groups are covertly sponsored by pill manufacturers.

'Goldacre has managed to achieve something marvellous here ... He has humanised the numbers so they become relevant. More than that, this is a book to make you enraged - properly, bone-shakingly furious - because it's about how big business puts profits over patient welfare, allows people to die because they don't want to disclose damning research evidence, and the tricks they play to make sure doctors do not have all the evidence when it comes to appraising whether a drug really works or not. A work of brilliance.' Max Pemberton, Daily Telegraph 'This is an important book. Ben Goldacre is angry, and by the time you put 'Bad Pharma' down, you should be too.' New Statesman 'What keeps you turning its pages is the accessibility of Goldacre's writing ... his genuine, indignant passion, his careful gathering of evidence and his use of stories, some of them personal, which bring the book to life.' Luisia Dilner, Guardian 'This is a book that deserves to be widely read, because anyone who does read it cannot help feeling both uncomfortable and angry.' Economist Bad Pharma' will confirm his status as a thorn in the side of the medical Establishment - Goldacre's detailed research would be hard for any drug-company executive to contradict' Lois Rogers, Sunday Times