Recommendation: This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the healthcare industry. Ben Goldacre highlights the dark truth behind the global pharmaceutical market, with a witty and informative writing style that keeps readers engaged throughout. He exposes how the industry manipulates data and conducts bad trials for their own gain, at the cost of patient safety. This book opens the reader's eyes to the disturbing reality of the healthcare industry and the reforms that are urgently required.

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• Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2013)

'Bad Science' hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess. Doctors and patients need good scientific evidence to make informed decisions. But instead, companies run bad trials on their own drugs, which distort and 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. The result: patients are harmed in huge numbers. Ben Goldacre is Britain's finest writer on the science behind medicine, and 'Bad Pharma' is the book that finally prompted Parliament to ask why all trial results aren't made publicly available - this edition has been updated with the latest news from the select committee hearings. Let the witty and indefatigable Goldacre show you how medicine went wrong, and what you can do to mend it.

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