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Bad Pharma
''Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients'' is a book by British physician and academic Ben Goldacre about the pharmaceutical industry, its relationship with the medical profession, and the extent to which it controls academic research into its own products.〔Luisa Dillner, ("Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre – review" ), ''The Guardian'', 17 October 2012.〕 The book was published in September 2012 in the UK by the Fourth Estate imprint of HarperCollins, and in February 2013 in the United States by Faber and Faber.
Goldacre argues in the book that "the whole edifice of medicine is broken" because the evidence on which it is based is systematically distorted by the pharmaceutical industry."
He writes that the industry finances most of the clinical trials into its own products and much of doctors' continuing education, that clinical trials are often conducted on small groups of unrepresentative subjects and negative data is routinely withheld, and that apparently independent academic papers may be planned and even ghostwritten by pharmaceutical companies or their contractors, without disclosure.〔''Bad Pharma'', pp. x–xi, 287ff; ("Pick your pill out of a hat" ), ''The Economist'', 29 September 2012.〕 Goldacre calls the situation a "murderous disaster," and makes suggestions for action by patients' groups, physicians, academics and the industry itself.〔
Responding to the book's publication, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry issued a statement arguing that the examples the book offers are historical, that the concerns have been addressed, that the industry is among the most regulated in the world, and that it discloses all data in accordance with international standards.〔("ABPI statement on Ben Goldacre's book 'Bad Pharma'" ), Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, 5 October 2012.
Ben Adams, ("Goldacre takes ABPI to task over book snub" ), ''Pharma Times'', 12 October 2012.〕
In January 2013 Goldacre joined the Cochrane Collaboration, ''British Medical Journal'' and others in setting up AllTrials, a campaign calling for the results of all past and current clinical trials to be reported.〔("About" ), alltrials.net; Tracey Brown, ("It's time for AllTrials registered and reported" ), ''The Cochrane Library'', 30 April 2013.〕 The British House of Commons Public Accounts Committee expressed concern in January 2014 that drug companies were still only publishing around 50 percent of clinical-trial results.〔David Tovey, ("Why the Public Accounts Committee Report on Tamiflu Is Important for Us All" ), ''Huffington Post'', 3 January 2014.
Rajeev Syal, ("Drug companies accused of holding back complete information on clinical trials" ), ''The Guardian'', 3 January 2014.〕
==Author==
After graduating in 1995 with a first-class honours degree in medicine from Magdalen College, Oxford, Goldacre obtained an MA in philosophy from King's College London, then undertook clinical training at UCL Medical School, qualifying as a medical doctor in 2000 and as a psychiatrist in 2005. As of 2014 he was Wellcome Research Fellow in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.〔Ben Goldacre, ("About" ), badscience.net.〕
Goldacre is known for his "Bad Science" column in the ''Guardian'', which he has written since 2003, and for his first book, ''Bad Science'' (2008). This unpicked the claims of several forms of alternative medicine, and criticized certain physicians and the media for a lack of critical thinking. It also looked at the MMR vaccine controversy, AIDS denialism, the placebo effect and the misuse of statistics.〔Ben Goldacre, ''Bad Science'', Harper Perennial, 2008.〕 Goldacre was recognized in June 2013 by ''Health Service Journal'' as having done "more than any other single individual to shine a light on how science and research gets distorted by the media, politicians, quacks, PR and the pharmaceutical industry."〔("Nick Black and Ben Goldacre named among clinical leaders making greatest impact" ), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 12 June 2013.
("Clinical Leaders 2013" ), ''Health Service Journal'', 14 June 2013.〕
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