News – Institute for Scientific Freedom

Book review: Death of a whistleblower and Cochrane’s moral collapse

Published on November 6, 2019November 7, 2019

… it was because Professor Gøtzsche was prepared to call out the lowering of scientific standards in Cochrane that the hierarchy felt compelled to plot his demise … one of the worst show trials ever … in a manner that mirrors how the drug industry operates … the death of Cochrane rather than the whistleblower.…

Science and censorship — my story

Published on October 30, 2019

By Maryanne Demasi, Ph.D. August 19, 2019. Science is facing a crisis of democracy. Now more than ever, vitriolic attacks are being leveled at people who debate opposing scientific views. Asking questions that challenge the establishment may be unsettling, but silencing debate and proclaiming that the “science is settled” is not the solution. Belgian physician…

Meeting in Erice, Sicily, 7-9 October 2019 about reducing drug harms

Published on October 25, 2019

Sponsored by the Uppsala Monitoring Centre and co-arranged by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford, 34 invited people participated in a three-day workshop, “Improving the detection, analysis and reporting of harms in medicines: exploring, enhancing and empowering.” It has been shown in several independent studies that prescription drugs are the third leading cause of…

BMJ News: Expelled Cochrane director to set up new institute for “integrity in science”

Published on January 11, 2019February 15, 2019

Peter Gøtzsche, who was expelled from the Cochrane Collaboration last year, plans to found a new Institute for Scientific Freedom. The new organisation, whose goal is “to preverve honesty and integrity in science”, will be launched on 9 March at an international symposium in Copenhagen. Read more.