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Pick your pill out of a hat 开药就好比抓阄 Bad Pharma. By Ben Goldacre. 《医药行业的恶劣行径》。作者：本戈尔达克尔。 Doctors like to project an air of authority whenmaking their clinical decisions. Patients like it too,for it is reassuring to think that one s health is inthe hands of an expert. It would be unsettling if, upon prescribing you a drug, your doctoradmitted that the scientific research about what exactly the drug did, and how effective itwas at doing it, was patchy and distorted, sometimes to the point where nobody has anyreal idea of what effects the drugs they are prescribing are likely to have on their patients. 医生诊疗时总看上去非常权威。病人其实也就喜欢这样的医生想到自己的身体得到了专家的医治，心中的石头就瞬间落了地。如果之前还给你开药的医生现在却说：该药物原理和效果的研究是经人为修改和捏造的;他甚至还称：根本就没人知道药物对病人到底有哪些可能的作用你是不是气得都说不出话了呢? But that is the reality described in Bad Pharma, Ben Goldacre s new book. A British doctorand science writer, he made his name in 2008 with Bad Science, in which he filleted thecredulous coverage given in the popular press to the claims of homeopaths, reikitherapists, Hopi ear-candlers and other purveyors of ceremonious placebos. Now he hastaken aim at a much bigger and more important target: the $600-billion pharmaceuticalindustry that develops and produces the drugs prescribed by real doctors the world over. | 
