Now he has published Bad Pharma, a darker, angrier book that amounts to a ‘j'accuse’ aimed primarily at the pharmaceutical industry but also at all of medicine. Goldacre sliced them apart, and in doing so created a book that sold over 400,000 copies and was translated into 25 languages.
It was filled with villains corrupting science for their own dubious, usually financial, ends. Later he published a book with the same title that I've always thought of as a popular, funny, and highly readable textbook of clinical epidemiology. How drug companies mislead doctors and harm patientsīen Goldacre, a youngish medical doctor, made his name with a column called Bad Science in the Guardian, Britain's left leaning newspaper.
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