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On the same token, any reader interested in the topic should read `bad science' by Ben Goldacre.
by marksbrown 13y ago
On the same token, any reader interested in the topic should read `bad science' by Ben Goldacre.
- protonfish 13y agoAnd the people at Science Based Medicine should address the legitimate criticisms in Ben's book Bad Pharma instead of focusing on the foolish woo from the alt health practitioners. I am sure its much easier to pretend that if the new age healers are wrong, then everything about the current use of pharmaceutical therapies is unquestioningly perfect. The truth is there are serious problems with the current way drugs are researched and prescribed. So many people embracing non-standard therapies is a symptom of this, even though the average person may not be able to rationally articulate their concerns.
- tokenadult 13y agoThe people at Science-Based Medicine have written a favorable review of the book Bad Pharma: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/bad-pharma-a-manifesto-to-fix-the-pharmaceutical-industry/ http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/bad-pharma-a-manifesto-t... They were aware of those issues and mentioning them before the book was published. Ben Goldacre and the joint editors of the Science-Based Medicine group blog are largely on the same page about how to investigate the safety and effectiveness of prescribed drugs.