Researcher and journalist Maryanne Demasi published today an account of the Cochrane show trial against Peter Gøtzsche (me) and of subsequent events. I have uploaded the Cochrane Tapes, with an introduction and explanations. The show trial was intended to be kept secret, but the tapes from the Governing Board meeting were leaked. They show that […]

I describe what is likely the beginning to the end for Cochrane. According to its major funder, the writing has been on the wall for 8 years, which is exactly the period when Cochrane’s new CEO, journalist Mark Wilson, ruled the organisation and destroyed it. He suddenly left his job, in the middle of a

Peter Gøtzsche and Anders Sørensen on trying to get a review of methods for safe antidepressant withdrawal published in Cochrane: “They sent us on a mission that was impossible to accomplish” to “protect the psychiatric guild.” About half of the patients on depression pills, or over 50 million people worldwide, will experience withdrawal symptoms when

… 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.

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.

Sir Iain Chalmers, the founder of the Cochrane Collaboration, and Jeremy Howick invited me to give a lecture in 2019 at an MSc course in Oxford about the history and philosophy of evidence-based healthcare. They asked me to share my personal experiences and research on conflicts of interest under the heading, “Power versus rationality.” In

Why some of us no longer want to publish in prestigious medical journals   By Peter C Gøtzsche Institute for Scientific Freedom Copenhagen 14 November 2023 Being one of the few people in the world who have published over 100 papers in “the big five,” BMJ, Lancet, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine and New England

By Peter C Gøtzsche In 1990, I defended my doctoral thesis at the University of Copenhagen. It was the first time a whole therapeutic area had been scrutinized with statistical methods, including meta-analyses. I had collected all trials that had compared one non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drug with another and demonstrated that the design and analysis of

This is the title of a Cochrane review I first published in 2001 and lastly updated in 2013 (1). Because many more deaths have now been published (2,3), I updated the review again on 10 January 2023, and on 6 February, my co-author had independently assessed the new data and agreed with what I had

Systematic violations of patients’ rights and safety: forced medication of a cohort of 30 patients in Alaska Gail Tasch1 and Peter C Gotzsche2 1S8661 Dogwood Road, Eau Claire, WI, USA; 2Institute for Scientific Freedom, Copenhagen, Denmark Correspondence: and This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Psychosis