Backgrounder: Big Pharma & Bad Science

Lies and poison. Click on image for detailed record.

Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Healthcare
by John Abramson
February 2022, Mariner Books

The Truth about the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do about It
by Marcia Angell
Random House, 2005

Follow the Science: How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails
by Sharyl Attkisson
September 2024, Broadside Books

Science Is Not What You Think: How It Has Changed, Why We Can’t Trust It, How It Can Be Fixed
by Henry H. Bauer
McFarland and Company, 2017

The Problem with Science: The Reproducibility Crisis and What to Do About It
by R. Barker Bausell
February 2021, Oxford University Press

Gaming the Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research
edited by Mario Biagioli and Alexandra Lippman
January 2020, MIT Press

Corporate Crime in the Pharmaceutical Industry
by John Braithwaite
reprint edition, Routledge, 2013

False Positive: A Year of Error, Omission, and Political Correctness in the New England Journal of Medicine
by Theodore Dalrymple
June 2019, Encounter Books

The Skeptical Professional’s Guide to Rational Prescribing: The Impact of Scientific Fraud and Misconduct
by Charles E. Dean
April 2022, CRC Press

White Coat Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine
by Carl Elliott
Beacon Press, 2011

Integrity of Scientific Research: Fraud, Misconduct and Fake News in the Academic, Medical and Social Environment
edited by Joel Faintuch and Salomão Faintuch
October 2022, Springer

Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS
by Celia Farber
reprint edition, Chelsea Green, 2023

Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
by Ben Goldacre
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014

Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma has Corrupted Healthcare
by Peter Gotzsche
CRC Press, 2013

Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions
by Richard Harris
reprint edition, Basic Books, 2018

Pharmageddon
by David Healy
University of California Press, 2012

On the Take: How Medicine’s Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health
by Jerome P. Kassirer
Oxford University Press, 2005

Code Blue: Inside America’s Medical Industrial Complex
by Mike Magee
June 2019, Grove Press

Fauci’s First Fraud
by Ken McCarthy
June 2023, independently published

Plague of Corruption: Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science
by Judy Mikovits and Kent Heckenlively
April 2020, Skyhorse

Pharma: Greed, Lies and the Poisoning of America
by Gerald Posner
March 2020, Simon and Schuster

Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
by Stuart Ritchie
July 2020, Metropolitan Books

Ending Plague: A Scholar’s Obligation in an Age of Corruption
by Francis W. Ruscetti, et al.
August 2021, Skyhorse

The Monsanto Papers: Corruption of Science and Grievous Harm to Public Health
by Gilles-Éric Seralini and Jérôme Douzelet
November 2021, Skyhorse