The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine: Exposing the Crisis of Credibility in Clinical Research

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Jon Jureidini Leemon B. McHenry

The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine

Exposing the Crisis of Credibility in Clinical Research

Jon Jureidini, Leemon B. McHenry

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English

Wakefield Press
01 July 2020

Medical ethics & professional conduct; Mathematics & Sciences

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An expose of the corruption of medicine by the pharmaceutical industry at every level, from exploiting the vulnerable destitute for drug testing, through manipulation of research data, to disease mongering and promoting drugs that do more harm than good.

Authors, Professor Jon Jureidini and Dr Leemon McHenry, made critical contributions to exposing the scientific misconduct in two infamous trials of antidepressants. Ghostwritten publications of these trials were highly influential in prescriptions of paroxetine (Paxil) and citalopram (Celexa) in paediatric and adolescent depression, yet both trials (Glaxo Smith Kline's paroxetine study 329 and Forest Laboratories' citalopram study CIT-MD-18) seriously misrepresented the efficacy and safety data.

The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine provides a detailed account of these studies and argues that medicine desperately needs to re-evaluate its relationship with the pharmaceutical industry. Without a basis for independent evaluation of the results of randomised, placebo-controlled clinical trials, there can be no confidence in evidence-based medicine.

Science demands rigorous, critical examination and especially severe testing of hypotheses to function properly, but this is exactly what is lacking in academic medicine.

By: Jon Jureidini, Leemon B. McHenry
Imprint: Wakefield Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 530g
ISBN: 9781743057247
ISBN 10: 1743057245
Publication Date: 01 July 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active