Ben Goldacre is a UK physician, epidemiologist and writer who has been an outspoken critic of the current research / publication system. He has written two books on the topic, and also has two very engaging TED talks . He will be speaking in Toronto this week Thursday and Friday…
Supermarket
268 Augusta Ave
Pub talk organised by @julia, free, open to all
Friday, 15th Feb, 7:30pm
Massey College lecture
4 devonshire Place, Toronto
free and open to the public.
www.masseycollege.ca
by @Julia
Come hear pop-science writer Ben Goldacre speak about his new book, Bad Pharma.
Ben Goldacre is an award-winning writer, medical doctor and academic, and author of The Guardian¹s Bad Science column, best-selling book of the same title, and Bad Pharma.
He’ll speak about the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry, and how the evidence base for the prescription drugs we use every day has been
distorted, how our systems have been broken, and how easy it would be to fix them.
Doctors and patients need good scientific evidence to make informed
decisions. But instead, companies run bad trials on their own drugs, which
exaggerate the benefits by design. When these trials produce unflattering
results, the data is simply buried. All of this is perfectly legal. In fact,
even government regulators withhold vitally important data from the people who need it most.
Doctors and patient groups have stood by too, and failed to protect us. Instead, they take money and favours, in a world so fractured
that medics and nurses are now educated by the drugs industry.
Ben Goldacre Bad Science, Bad Pharma
Thursday 14th Feb, 6pm-8pm
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