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Ben goldacres first book, bad science, shredded the claims of homeopaths and fake doctors. Read bad pharma how drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients by ben goldacre available from rakuten kobo. Chapter 1 of bad pharma is entitled missing data, and tells us about the problem of incomplete publication of clinical trials. The book is enlivened by goldacres passion and, at points, raw anger over how doctors making prescribing decisions in good faith and on the available evidence can be cynically misled over the best treatment for their patients.
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