{"id":961,"date":"2012-09-26T22:44:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T22:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=961"},"modified":"2014-12-30T06:05:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T06:05:35","slug":"the-drugs-dont-work-a-modern-medical-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=961","title":{"rendered":"The drugs don&#8217;t work: a modern medical scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/bengoldacre\" rel=\"author\">Ben Goldacre<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguardian\">The Guardian<\/a>, Friday 21 September 2012\u00a0 The doctors prescribing the drugs don&#8217;t know they don&#8217;t do what they&#8217;re meant to. Nor do their patients. The manufacturers know full well, but they&#8217;re not telling.\u00a0 Drugs are tested by their manufacturers, in poorly designed trials, on hopelessly small numbers of weird, unrepresentative patients, and analysed using techniques that exaggerate the benefits.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/readersupportednews.org\/opinion2\/272-39\/13627-the-drugs-dont-work-a-modern-medical-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Goldacre | The Guardian, Friday 21 September 2012\u00a0 The doctors prescribing the drugs don&#8217;t know they don&#8217;t do what they&#8217;re meant to. Nor do their patients. The manufacturers know <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=961\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[428,429,380,212,42],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsroom","tag-bad-pharma","tag-ben-goldacre","tag-drug-trials","tag-pharmaceutical-research-and-manufacturers-of-america","tag-pharmaceuticals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1799,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/1799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}