Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare

Don't take any new drug until you have read this book and give a copy to your doctor.Simply stated, the evidence for the corruption of drug research data, publications, and pharmaceutical marketing "investments" presented in this book is breathtaking. In plain and refreshingly blunt language the author proves how appropriate his provocative title is on virtually every page of the book. If you don't believe me, read the forwards written by Richard Smith, former editor in chief of the British Medical Journal, and Drummond Rennie, deputy editor, Journal of the American Medical Association.Gotzsche backs up each and every one of his frightening conclusions with solid data, holding himself to the "evidenced based" requirements the world's drug companies have so successfully sidestepped with "investments" designed to maximize their profits while betraying patients and everyone else working in the medical community. Also, visit and use the Cochrane Cooperative @ [...] to get unbiased summary reports on the real evidence for the effectiveness of drugs based on meta-analysis of research reports that have been carefully selected for valid research protocols.Personally I don't believe the big issue here is about any individual doctor's honesty. Most of these folks are truly the "good guys." Instead, this is about the misinformation doctors are being fed in compromised research reports from major medical journals, combined with major pharmaceutical company marketing investments carefully designed to influence doctors' professional judgments. Those investments include millions of dollars spent on physicians each year in gifts, consulting fees, continuing medical education, lecture fees, travel to conferences, corporate advisory boards, and so on. Individually, a single physician, and, individually, each of these "investments" are not that consequential in either practical or ethical terms. But taken together, they add up to massive corruption producing huge ongoing profits while subjecting patients to grossly overpriced new drugs that have no better, and sometimes worse outcomes when honestly compared to older, well understood drugs.Read the book. Be an informed consumer and vote for regulatory change to end this destructive corporate abuse.

Think for yourself when making medical choices. They should help you and not harm you.

This is a terrific summary with enough detail and references to be your mainstay of the seriously deadly business of drugs. You will see many that you or family or friends take, and that are advertised on TV. Including cancer drugs, heart meds, NSAIDS, arthritis drugs, anti depressants etc. Most all rubbish in terms of actual P value and "randomized" trials. Most all drugs' trials are so manipulated from start to finish you won't believe it.Doctors are pawns of the industry and after reading just this one book you will be more educated than them on the benefits or harms of the most popular medicines by a huge factor. But then they know nothing as they too are duped by the drug companies.It is incredible that so many popular drugs used all the time today are almost completely unproven as beneficial against active placebos. forget about so called randomized and "blind" drug trials- they are almost always manipulated to produce higher benefit and lower risk. I always knew that 95% of all medicine was not only not necessary but harmful but I did not realize that the even the regulators, and the law enforcement of the FDA etc. are of almost no use, and even condone bad practices from within even their own corrupt ranks.Thank God for the Cochrane Collaboration of which Gotzsche is cofounder for being unbiased and not connected to the drug manufacturing or selling industry. His vase experience as a doctor, salesman and academic have served us all. We should be eternally grateful for people like this.This book should absolutely be required reading for all ... starting in high school.

This book by Gotzsche will shake you to wake you out of a false sense of trust in those people society holds up as academic giants people we entrust our health our lives and minds to, people who have proclaimed to first do no harm! It will stir the emotions within that cries out for justice and fairness and transparency when it comes to something as precious as our health. It exposes the shameful disgraceful behavior that has led to the prescribing of poisons under a wrapper of lies, fraud and deceit. Behavior that the trusting, humble man in the street is completely unable to conceive of. Its well referenced documentation silences all critics. No doubt about it Gotzsche is a true hero and very informed. One area he appears to be uninformed in is the need to taper for years in order to get off psych drugs he seems surprised in one sentence that some 'may have to taper for a full year', unable to conceive of tapers that last for 4-5 years yet that kind of tapering requirement is becoming more and more common as thousands come to the realization that pharma have taken addiction to a whole new level... and lied about it. One quote will stick with me Gotzsche when asked to comment on the ethical standards in drug companies replied......'I am unable to comment on something that does not exist.' A must read for all people who wish to be informed of this unprecedented crime against humanity.

Pra quem busca conhecimentos verdadeiros.

A l'époque, j'avais suivi le travail de la commission d'enquête parlementaire sur le scandale du Mediator, vu le travail du lobbying et s'être longtemps demandé qui étaient ces fameux experts de l'ASM et comment ils expliquaient leur absence de réaction face aux interdictions mises en place dans d'autres pays...Le procès où la peine requise contre le principal inculpé (4 ans de prison avec sursis) et les amendes dérisoires par rapport aux bénéfices réalisés par Servier, par rapport aux milliers de morts et d'handicapés à vie que ce "médicament" a généré, est un scandale de lenteur, rendant impossible l'utilisation d'une "class action" puisque celle-ci ne peut être faite que dans un 2e temps "lorsque le juge aura caractérisé la responsabilité" et que "le jugement sera définitif", comme on peut le voir dans le scandale de la Dépakine.Si les exemples que je cite sont Français, l'étude de l'auteur est mondiale et montre que le comportement de l'industrie pharmaceutique où l'argent a bien plus d'importance que la santé et la vie des patients, est bien plus courant qu'on ne le pense.Je regrette que la traduction française en format poche, 608 pages, édité par Presse Université Laval ne soit pas disponible, cela permettrait à beaucoup de commencer à ouvrir les yeux, à commencer sur la propagande actuelle sur le Covid et sur notre générosité à offrir des vaccins aux Africains... alors qu'ils ont près de 10 fois moins de morts que nous, en soignant différemment.

I'm fascinated by this book. Before I bought it, I was already excited about the idea of reading a different point of view about the pharmaceutical industry, wrote by such an outstanding person in the current medical community. But now that I've read a few pages, I'm immersed in constant reading. I highly recommend reading it.

Todos los médicos deberíamos leer este libro al terminar la escuela de medicina. Es abrumador pero en lo general describe a la perfección un problema creciente que aleja cada vez más a los médicos de los Pcientes a través de la promoción de medicamentos cada vez más carlos y a veces innecesarios

Right from the first chapter you are thrown into the murky world of pharmaceuticals. An absolute MUST read for everybody wanting to know how we got to the state of the world today.