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Thursday, 5 November 2026

Less than half of prescribed drugs do more good than harm

Prescription drugs should only be prescribed when they’re likely to do more good than harm. And at least half of all prescriptions – including those for statins – aren’t in that category.

The statistics relating to medical treatment are pretty well known by now. Back in the 1970s it was known that around half of all patients given drugs suffer serious or potentially serious side effects. It was known that one in six patients in hospital were there because they’d been made ill by a doctor. (When I first revealed this alarming statistic in 1975, while on a promotional tour for my book `The Medicine Men’, a representative of the British Medical Association pointed out, with surprising pride, that this figure meant that five out of six patients in hospital were NOT there because their doctor had made them ill. He seemed pleased by this.)

And today, of course, not even the staunchest supporters of the drug industry and the medical establishment (excuse the tautology, please, for these are interchangeable in their purposes and their greed) would dispute the fact that doctors are now the greatest and most significant cause of death – killing more people than cancer, heart disease and strokes.

Medical history is now awash with examples of professional perfidy...<<<Read More>>>....