Ben Goldacre on TED, on drug companies and hidden data.

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• Format Videos
• Language/s English
• Target Audience Self-directed learning
• EBM Stage 0 - Why EBM?
• Duration 5-15 mins
• Difficulty Intermediate

Key Concepts addressed

• Beware of claims like these
• 2-2b All fair comparisons and outcomes should be reported

Details

Ben Goldacre’s video lecture on TED.com in which he unpicks dodgy scientific claims made by scaremongering journalists, dubious government reports, pharmaceutical corporations, PR companies and quacks.

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.

This video is published by TED.com under a Creative Commons licence.

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• listen to an extended interview with Ben by Alok Jha in which they discuss Bad Pharma