Dr Ben Oldacre is a young Brit doctor that is incensed by the state of the medical industry, particularly the big Pharma. He shows how they hide clinical trials that do not come out the way they want, and distort the results they do let get published. They pay medical journals to publish their papers, and support monetarily professional societies to favor them. Doctors are paid to give talks favoring drugs manufactured by the company, without admitting the connection. The detailers lie to doctors about the efficacy and side effects of drugs they are marketing. Drug companies spend twice as much on marketing as on research. Much of what they call marketing, in my opinion, could be called bribery.
Regulators cravenly ignore the problems, and hide data that should be public.
Read some of the reviews and comments from the link below, then read the book if you have the stomach for it.
http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Pharma-How-Medicine-Broken-ebook/dp/B008RLTUUA/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1388447537&sr=1-1&keywords=bad+pharma
Dr Oldacre makes many good suggestions to help fix these problems.
Also see his blog for an update on happenings since the publication of his book.
http://www.badscience.net/2013/12/free-here-is-the-new-what-happened-next-update-chapter-from-bad-pharma-2013/#more-3056
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