This little article is a copy of a section in my autobiography, Whistleblower in healthcare, which can be downloaded for free here: https://www.scientificfreedom.dk/books/. It describes how both GSK, AstraZeneca and Cochrane committed fraud, to the benefit of their steroid, but it doesn’t work and is actually harmful. Read article here

In 2008, I was exposed to absurd censorship and editorial misconduct when I tried to publish a Cochrane review of an obscenely expensive drug, alpha-1 antitrypsin for patients with lung disease caused by inherited alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. I have also been exposed to censorship in relation to our assessment of the quality of 53 new

Some people with asthma are allergic to house dust mites, and many physical and chemical methods have been tried to eradicate the mites or reduce their occurrence. One of my researchers, Cecilia Hammarquist from Sweden, wanted to review the trials, which we did. This is a hilarious story illustrating that there are no limits to

One of the most absurd interventions in healthcare is distant healing, which includes prayer.  We have shown that a Cochrane review of intercessory prayer[1] goes beyond reason, is logically inconsistent, and uses an unsound mixture of theological and scientific arguments,[2] which led to utter nonsense.

Last year, we updated our Cochrane review on mammography screening with more mortality data and sent it to Cochrane in August 2023. The many comments we received on the very minor, fourth update of a well-known and highly cited Cochrane review that has been around for 23 years1 illustrates that Cochrane has become a highly

By Peter C Gøtzsche Institute for Scientific Freedom Copenhagen 6 November 2023 The day after I was expelled from the Cochrane Governing Board and from the Cochrane Collaboration on 13 September 2018, four board members resigned in protest. Two days later, they gave their reasons in an email, “Why we resigned,” which they sent to

Why did governments all over the world and their so-called experts lie profusely about the effect of face masks when they don’t seem to work? And why did Cochrane throw its researchers under the bus both in 2020 and in 2023, thereby undermining its own credibility? Read the bizarre story here.

All reputable medical journals have an impartial mechanism for dealing with allegations of editorial misconduct. In the past, this was also the case for the Cochrane Library. Today, Cochrane’s attitude can best be described as, “We don’t give a damn. We are beyond reproach.” Cochrane’s ongoing crisis caused by multiple missteps – most recently the

By Peter C Gøtzsche Cochrane – A sinking ship? This article was posted by PhD Maryanne Demasi as a blog on the website of BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine on 16 September 2018 (https://blogs.bmj.com/bmjebmspotlight/2018/09/16/cochrane-a-sinking-ship/). Incidentally, I found out earlier this week that the link had become inactive: “This site has been archived or suspended.” Demasi inquired, and