Are Big Pharma murderers?
A New York Times book review focuses on the work of Melody Petersen, a former reporter for the Times. She has written a book against Big Pharma's marketing tactics called Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves Into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs. Petersen asks if drugs could be killing people but never being blamed, allowing them to harm even more Americans until someone, finally, catches on. Petersen calls for non-government watchdog agencies and closer oversight on published studies, which she says are ghostwritten by pharma spokespeople.
The review is here
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