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Tag: Ben Goldacre

“Medicine is Broken”: Ben Goldacre’s Bad Pharma

Posted on August 10, 2012 by David Dobbs · 1 Comment

  From the muckraker troublemaker Dr. Ben Goldacre, of Bad Science fame: 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 […]

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