Bad Pharma
How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
Recommended by Timothy Ferriss, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #9 in Pharmacy, Ranked #15 in Pharmacology — see more rankings.
Medicine is broken. We like to imagine that it’s based on evidence and the results of fair tests. In reality, those tests are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors are familiar with the research literature surrounding a drug, when in reality much of the research is hidden from them by drug companies. We like to imagine that doctors are impartially educated, when in reality much of their education is funded by industry. We like to imagine that regulators let only effective drugs onto the market, when in reality they approve hopeless drugs, with data on side effects casually... more
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- #72 in Critical Thinking
- #61 in Factual
- #34 in Medicine
- #22 in Microeconomics
- #91 in Popular Science
- #72 in Public Health
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