Bad Science

by Ben Goldacre

It’s quite natural that when your symptoms are at their very worst, you will do things to try to get better. You might take a homeopathic remedy. You might sacrifice a goat and dangle its entrails around your neck. You might bully your GP into giving you antibiotics. (I’ve listed these in order of increasing ridiculousness.)

Because they cannot find new treatments for the diseases we already have, the pill companies instead invent new diseases for the treatments they already have.