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Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare 1st Edition

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PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ARE THE THIRD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AFTER HEART DISEASE AND CANCER. In his latest ground-breaking book, Peter C Gotzsche exposes the pharmaceutical industries and their charade of fraudulent behaviour, both in research and marketing where the morally repugnant disregard for human lives is the norm. He convincingly draws close comparisons with the tobacco conglomerates, revealing the extraordinary truth behind efforts to confuse and distract the public and their politicians. The book addresses, in evidence-based detail, an extraordinary system failure caused by widespread crime, corruption, bribery and impotent drug regulation in need of radical reforms. "The main reason we take so many drugs is that drug companies don't sell drugs, they sell lies about drugs. This is what makes drugs so different from anything else in life...Virtually everything we know about drugs is what the companies have chosen to tell us and our doctors...the reason patients trust their medicine is that they extrapolate the trust they have in their doctors into the medicines they prescribe. The patients don't realise that, although their doctors may know a lot about diseases and human physiology and psychology, they know very, very little about drugs that hasn't been carefully concocted and dressed up by the drug industry...If you don't think the system is out of control, please email me and explain why drugs are the third leading cause of death...If such a hugely lethal epidemic had been caused by a new bacterium or a virus, or even one-hundredth of it, we would have done everything we could to get it under control." FROM THE INTRODUCTION
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Professor Peter C Gøtzsche graduated as a Master of Science in biology and chemistry in 1974 and as a physician in 1984. He is a specialist in internal medicine; he worked with clinical trials and regulatory affairs in the drug industry 1975–83, and at hospitals in Copenhagen 1984–95. He co-founded The Cochrane Collaboration in 1993 and established The Nordic Cochrane Centre the same year. He became professor of Clinical Research Design and Analysis in 2010 at the University of Copenhagen., Peter Gøtzsche has published more than 50 papers in ‘the big five’ (BMJ, Lancet, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine and New England Journal of Medicine) and his scientific works have been cited over 10000 times., Peter Gøtzsche has an interest in statistics and research methodology. He is a member of several groups publishing guidelines for good reporting of research and has co-authored CONSORT for randomised trials (www.consort-statement.org), STROBE for observational studies (www.strobe-statement.org), PRISMA for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (www.prisma-statement.org), and SPIRIT for trial protocols (www.spirit-statement.org). Peter Gøtzsche is an editor in the Cochrane Methodology Review Group.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CRC Press; 1st edition (August 28, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 310 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1846198844
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1846198847
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 0.73 x 8.75 inches
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Peter C. Gøtzsche, DrMedSci, MD, MSc

Professor Peter C Gøtzsche graduated as a Master of Science in biology and chemistry in 1974 and as a physician 1984. He is a specialist in internal medicine; worked with clinical trials and regulatory affairs in the drug industry 1975-1983, and at hospitals in Copenhagen 1984-95. Co-founded the Cochrane Collaboration (the founder is Sir Iain Chalmers), and established the Nordic Cochrane Centre in 1993. Became professor of Clinical Research Design and Analysis in 2010 at the University of Copenhagen and has been a member of the Cochrane Governing Board twice. Co-founded Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry in the UK in 2014 and International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal in Sweden in 2016. Founded the Institute for Scientific Freedom in 2019. Currently works as researcher, lecturer, author and independent consultant, e.g. in lawsuits. Visiting professor, University of Newcastle.

Peter’s greatest contribution to public health was when he, in 2010, opened the archives of clinical study reports in the European Medicines Agency after a 3-year long battle that involved a complaint to the European Ombudsman. EMA was solely concerned with protecting the drug industry’s interests while ignoring those of the patients. The Ombudsman ruled there was no commercially confident information in the study reports.

Peter has published more than 75 papers in "the big five" (BMJ, Lancet, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine and New England Journal of Medicine) and his scientific works have been cited about 50,000 times (his H-index is 70 according to Web of Science, April 2019, which means that 70 papers have been cited at least 70 times). Peter is author of several books. The most recent ones are:

• Mental health survival kit and withdrawal from psychiatric drugs (2020, will appear in other languages).

• Vaccines: truth, lies and controversy (2020, will appear in at least 7 languages).

• Survival in an overmedicated world: Find the evidence yourself (2019) (will appear in 7 languages).

• Death of a whistleblower and Cochrane’s moral collapse (2019).

• Deadly psychiatry and organised denial (2015) (in 9 languages).

• Deadly medicines and organised crime: How big pharma has corrupted health care (2013) (Winner, British Medical Association’s Annual Book Award, Basis of Medicine in 2014; in 16 languages).

• Mammography screening: truth, lies and controversy (2012) (Winner of the Prescrire Prize 2012).

• Rational diagnosis and treatment: evidence-based clinical decision-making (2007).

Peter has given numerous interviews. One, about organised crime in the drug industry, has been seen about 350,000 times on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dozpAshvtsA. Peter was in The Daily Show in New York on 16 Sept 2014 where he played the role of Deep Throat revealing secrets about big pharma. A documentary film about Peter’s reform work in psychiatry, Diagnosing Psychiatry, appeared in 2017.

Peter has an interest in statistics and research methodology. He has co-authored CONSORT for randomised trials (www.consort-statement.org), STROBE for observational studies (www.strobe-statement.org), PRISMA for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (www.prisma-statement.org), and SPIRIT for trial protocols (www.spirit-statement.org). Peter was an editor in the Cochrane Methodology Review Group 1997-2014.

Peter is Protector for the Hearing Voices Network in Denmark.

Peter’s websites: scientificfreedom.dk and deadlymedicines.dk.

Twitter: @PGtzsche1

Email: pcg@scientificfreedom.dk

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this book is an absolute beast. Documents many of the instances of pharma lies and outright deceipt throughout the past twenty years. Dr Gotzsche has a well cited summary which discusses vioxx, cox 2 inhibitors, epilepgy drugs, celebrex, insulin drugs, avandia, rosiglitazone, rezulin, and numerous other drugs and the manipulations of pharma and methods by which the medical journals have been compromised.
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Virgil
5.0 out of 5 stars Should be required reading for all.
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2017
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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.
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Ron
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute Must Read
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2014
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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.
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Scottie Mom
5.0 out of 5 stars Good to know
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2024
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Think for yourself when making medical choices. They should help you and not harm you.
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Kiwi
5.0 out of 5 stars The exposure of an unprecedented crime against humanity. I applaud you Peter.
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2015
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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.
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Jason Stringer
5.0 out of 5 stars legit summary of pharma and gov agency corruption
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2022
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this book is an absolute beast. Documents many of the instances of pharma lies and outright deceipt throughout the past twenty years. Dr Gotzsche has a well cited summary which discusses vioxx, cox 2 inhibitors, epilepgy drugs, celebrex, insulin drugs, avandia, rosiglitazone, rezulin, and numerous other drugs and the manipulations of pharma and methods by which the medical journals have been compromised.
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Jason Stringer
5.0 out of 5 stars legit summary of pharma and gov agency corruption
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2022
this book is an absolute beast. Documents many of the instances of pharma lies and outright deceipt throughout the past twenty years. Dr Gotzsche has a well cited summary which discusses vioxx, cox 2 inhibitors, epilepgy drugs, celebrex, insulin drugs, avandia, rosiglitazone, rezulin, and numerous other drugs and the manipulations of pharma and methods by which the medical journals have been compromised.
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LEANDRO VIDAL DA SILVA
5.0 out of 5 stars Livro top
Reviewed in Brazil on February 7, 2024
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Patrick50
5.0 out of 5 stars Acheté après avoir suivi le scandale du Mediator...
Reviewed in France on June 6, 2021
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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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I'm continually reading this book.
Reviewed in Spain on January 15, 2020
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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.
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Alicia Yepez
5.0 out of 5 stars Verdades incómodas
Reviewed in Mexico on July 4, 2017
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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
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L. Brennan
5.0 out of 5 stars A cracking good book!
Reviewed in Australia on August 11, 2021
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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.
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