Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science (TED)

Original website : TED.com
http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_battling_bad_science.html

About this talk :
Every day there are news reports of new health advice, but how can you know if they're right? Doctor and epidemiologist Ben Goldacre shows us, at high speed, the ways evidence can be distorted, from the blindingly obvious nutrition claims to the very subtle tricks of the pharmaceutical industry.

About the speaker :
Ben Goldacre
Ben Goldacre writes "Bad Science" -- unpicking dodgy scientific claims made by scaremongering journalists, dubious government reports, evil pharmaceutical corporations, PR companies and quacks.

Full biography :
http://www.ted.com/speakers/ben_goldacre.html

External links : Website: Bad Science : http://www.badscience.net/ Column: Bad Science (in The Guardian) : http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/bengoldacre Book: Bad Science : http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Science-Quacks-Pharma-Flacks/dp/0865479186/ref=cm_c... Twitter: @bengoldacre : https://twitter.com/#%21/bengoldacre

Video source file :
http://video.ted.com/talk/podcast/2011G/None/BenGoldacre_2011G-480p.mp4

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[kylesenior]

@kevnar I don't agree. Patients that live longer spend more money on drugs

[kevnar]

@kylesenior They kill people because there's money to be made in selling drugs that aren't really researched properly. Research is expensive. If they can buy off a senator and fast track the drug approval, cha-ching. So a few million people die each year that might have lived if the company had done better research. It's all about the bottom line.

[kylesenior]

@kevnar Why the hell would they want to kill people? If you die you can't buy medicine and they don't make money

[kevnar]

We know drug companies are crooked, and that they're killing people by the millions each year in the name of profit. The only question is how deep the pit of corruption goes. With billions in profits each year to back them up, there's small chance that even the government will ever get the truth.