TY - BOOK AU - Ventegodt,Søren AU - Merrick,Joav TI - Randomized clinical trials and placebo: can you trust the drugs are working and safe? T2 - Health and human development SN - 9781614700678 (hardcover) AV - R853.C55 V46 2012 U1 - 615/.10724 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Nova Science Publishers KW - Clinical trials KW - Placebos (Medicine) KW - Drugs KW - Toxicology KW - Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic KW - Drug Toxicity KW - Placebos KW - Treatment Outcome N1 - Book; Includes bibliographical references and index; The errors and deficiencies of the randomised, clinical trial (RCT) -- Problems with the premises of the RCT-- Passive or active placebo? -- Measuring the effect of drugs in RTC. -- The observation time of the randomised clinical trial (RCT) -- Efficacy of biomedicine in general practice -- The cost of a patient cured with biomedicine compared to the original, Hippocratic, holistic medicine -- The chemical medicine's efficacy in the serious diseases. Somatic medicine : cancer and coronary heart disease. Psychiatry : depression and schizophrenia -- The marketing strategy and the values of Big Pharma -- Biomedicine and holistic medicine in conflict -- How do we develop medicine from being poisonous drugs into being an efficient and safe medicine? -- Conclusion : the pharmaceutical industry sells poisons as medicine and knows that the documentation should be better -- Scientific résumé ER -