Books by Ben Goldacre

I am thus a little nervous when Ben Goldacre entitles his recent book Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients .  (I have a UK copy, and it is due out in the U.S. this February.)  I do in fact agree with Goldacre’s portrait of a sector wracked with massive corruption and shoddy scientific standards.  And I see many aspects of this book as deserving an “A” or “A+” rating, which I would not hand out lightly.  But I won’t continue down that track, because I suspect the book ...