How long does it take to read Bad Pharma: How Medicine Is Broken, and How We Can Fix It?
Bad Pharma: How Medicine Is Broken, and How We Can Fix It by Ben Goldacre takes about 8 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 1 minute
A week or two of reading
First published 2001. 437 pages, about 120,175 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair tests. In reality, those tests are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors are familiar with the research literature about a drug, when in reality much of the research is hidden from them by drug companies. We like to imagine that doctors are impartially educated, when in reality much of their education is funded by the pharmaceutical industry. We like to imagine that regulators let only effective drugs onto the market, when in reality they approve useless drugs, with data on side effects casually withheld from doctors and patients. All these problems have been shielded from public scrutiny because they're too complex to capture in a sound bite. But Ben Goldacre shows that the true scale of this murderous disaster fully reveals itself only when the details are untangled. He believes we should all be able to understand precisely how data manipulation works and how research misconduct on a global scale affects us. This book reveals a shockingly broken system and calls for something to be done.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Pharmaceutical industry, Medical errors, Medication abuse, Medical ethics, Corporations, corrupt practices, Drugs, testing
