Ben Goldacre is now on a North American tour promoting his book, Bad Pharma, his expose of the pharmaceutical industry. On the book’s overleaf, he has the following quote: “The tricks and distortions ...

Paul Gershlick of Matthew Arnold &amp, Baldwin LLP discusses topics from Ben Goldacre’s recent book, Bad Pharma, and what changes ought to be made in order to achieve true transparency in the ...

Ben Goldacre: Medical data has huge power to do good, but it presents risks too. When leaked, it cannot be unleaked. When lost, public trust cannot be easily regained Ben Goldacre: Doctors like to ...

The activist physician Dr. Ben Goldacre has had the pharmaceutical industry in his sights for a long time. His book, Bad Pharma (2012), criticized the industry on a number of topics, including ...

Ben Goldacre spreading the news at the Free University of Glastonbury, June 2011. Neil Melville-Kenney The British Medical Journal (BMJ) published a poll in late-October 2012 asking, “Who is mainly at ...

A “mañana culture” which constantly promises action tomorrow is preventing data analytics being used to drive immediate healthcare improvements, said Dr. Ben Goldacre at the Digital Health Rewired ...

It takes only three words to sum up the key message of Ben Goldacre's new book, Bad Pharma: Missing data kills. In other words, what we don't know about the drugs we take every day can hurt us, even ...

If you haven’t heard about the British columnist, author of Bad Science and self-called “nerd evangelist” that is Ben Goldacre, then you’ve clearly been living under a rock. This time, Ben’s back with ...

From the muckraker troublemaker Dr. Ben Goldacre, of Bad Science fame: Medicine is broken. We like to imagine that it’s based on evidence and the results of fair tests. In reality, those tests are ...

"It seems that the majority of health claims made, in a large representative sample of UK national newspapers, are supported only by the weakest possible forms of evidence." That is how my colleague ...

Pseudoscientists and pharmaceutical frauds beware: gladiator of rationality Dr. Ben Goldacre is set to slaughter peddlers of scientific misinformation this September. Subscribe to Scoop’s 'The Catch ...