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SUMMARY: Nerd Valentine’s Pub Night with Ben Goldacre
LOCATION:Supermarket Restaurant and Bar
URL:http://www.blogto.com/events/70451
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Come hear pop-science writer Ben Goldacre speak about his new book, Bad Pha=
rma.=20

Ben Goldacre is an award-winning writer, medical doctor and academic, and a=
uthor of The Guardian=E2=80=99s Bad Science column, best-selling book of th=
e same title, and Bad Pharma <http://www.randomhouse.ca/books/221748/bad-ph=
arma-by-ben-goldacre>.

He=E2=80=99ll speak about the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry, and ho=
w the evidence base for the prescription drugs we use every day has been di=
storted, how our systems have been broken, and how easy it would be to fix =
them.
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Doctors and patients need good scientific evidence to make informed decisio=
ns. But instead, companies run bad trials on their own drugs, which exagger=
ate the benefits by design. When these trials produce unflattering results,=
 the data is simply buried. All of this is perfectly legal. In fact, even g=
overnment regulators withhold vitally important data from the people who ne=
ed it most. Doctors and patient groups have stood by too, and failed to pro=
tect us. Instead, they take money and favours, in a world so fractured that=
 medics and nurses are now educated by the drugs industry.
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