Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2017-08-24
Books mentioned on Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations (Rebroadcast)
How do so many ineffective and even dangerous drugs make it to market? One reason is that clinical trials are often run on "dream patients" who aren't representative of a larger population.
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Bad Pharma
“One of Goldacre's books is called Bad Pharma. He echoes what Vinay Prasad was telling us about the people who were chosen for clinical trials.”