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The tools we have to investigate new drugs are woefully misused. Ben goldacre is a writer, broadcaster, and doctor best known for the bad science column in the guardian. He is the author of the guardian newspapers weekly bad science column and a book of the same title, published by fourth estate in september 2008. There arent many outandout good eggs in british journalism but ben goldacre is one of them. The shocking and previously unpublishable new chapter from his book bad science. Ben goldacre is a doctor, a journalist and the author of two books. Ben goldacre at imagining the future of medicine duration.
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