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In short: The tests that shows that a medicin is not working is not beeing published so we dont know about it. Doctors keep giving out prescritions on medicin that actually is not working. Many of the tests that shows a medicin is working is also not accurate.
And when people have started to look into this and want to get the information about some of the non published tests the drug companys is saying no.
From the video: "When a new drug gets tested, the results of the trials should be published for the rest of the medical world -- except much of the time, negative or inconclusive findings go unreported, leaving doctors and researchers in the dark. In this impassioned talk, Ben Goldacre explains why these unreported instances of negative data are especially misleading and dangerous.
Ben Goldacre unpicks dodgy scientific claims made by scaremongering journalists, dubious government reports, pharmaceutical corporations, PR companies and quacks."
Ben Goldacre: What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe | Video on TED.com
In short: The tests that shows that a medicin is not working is not beeing published so we dont know about it. Doctors keep giving out prescritions on medicin that actually is not working. Many of the tests that shows a medicin is working is also not accurate.
And when people have started to look into this and want to get the information about some of the non published tests the drug companys is saying no.
From the video: "When a new drug gets tested, the results of the trials should be published for the rest of the medical world -- except much of the time, negative or inconclusive findings go unreported, leaving doctors and researchers in the dark. In this impassioned talk, Ben Goldacre explains why these unreported instances of negative data are especially misleading and dangerous.
Ben Goldacre unpicks dodgy scientific claims made by scaremongering journalists, dubious government reports, pharmaceutical corporations, PR companies and quacks."
Ben Goldacre: What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe | Video on TED.com