Peter Gøtzsche

Peter Gøtzsche     (doctor, medical dissident)
Born	26 November 1949
Nationality	Danish
Alma mater	University of Copenhagen, Lund University
Exposed	• mammography • HPV vaccine • SSRI • medical journals • medical ghostwriting
Danish doctor who co-founded the Cochrane Collaboration - which expelled him in 2018 after he criticized the HPV vaccines.  Professor of Clinical Research Design and Analysis In office 2010 - Present Employer University of Copenhagen

Professor Peter C. Gøtzsche is a Danish doctor who co-founded the Cochrane Collaboration, and established the Nordic Cochrane Centre in 1993. He is the author of the book Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare, which "shows that the official definition of organized crime closely matches the activities of the largest drug companies".

His membership in Cochrane was terminated by its Governing Board of Trustees on 25 September 2018 after he criticized the HPV vaccine.

“Bribery is routine and involves large amounts of money. Almost every type of person who can affect the interests of the industry has been bribed: doctors, hospital administrators, cabinet ministers, health inspectors, customs officers, tax assessors, drug registration officials, factory inspectors, pricing officials and political parties. In Latin America, posts as ministers of health are avidly sought, as these ministers are almost invariably rich with wealth coming from the drug industry. In the beginning of this chapter, I asked the question whether we are seeing a lone bad apple now and then, or whether pretty much the whole basket is rotten. What we are seeing is organised crime in an industry that is completely rotten.”
Peter Gøtzsche (2013) 

Education

After completing high school, Gøtzsche studied science graduating with a Master of Science in biology and chemistry in 1974. He worked briefly as a teacher. In 1975 he took a job in the pharmaceutical industry as a drug representative for Astra AB; several months later he became a product manager. In 1977 Gøtzsche took a position at Astra-Syntex and was responsible for clinical trials. While at Astra-Syntex he started to study medicine and graduated as a physician in 1984.

Dr Peter Gøtzsche exposes big pharma as organized crime

Career

Gøtzsche worked at hospitals in Copenhagen from 1984 to 1995. He co-founded with Sir Iain Chalmers and about 80 other investigators the Cochrane Collaboration in 1993. The same year he established the Nordic Cochrane Centre. In 2010, Gøtzsche was named Professor of Clinical Research Design and Analysis at the University of Copenhagen. This professorship was later retracted from the university.

In 2017, he was elected a member of the Governing Board of Cochrane. In September 2018 he was expelled from Cochrane Collaboration. In 2019 Gøtzsche founded the Institute for Scientific Freedom, whose goal is "to preserve honesty and integrity in science".

In 2012 his book Mammography Screening: Truth, Lies and Controversy was published. In 2013 his book Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime: How Big Pharma has Corrupted Healthcare was published.

 

A Quote by Peter Gøtzsche

Page	Quote	Date	Source
"Safe and effective"	“Drug companies never talk about the benefits and harms of their drugs but about their efficacy and safety. Words create what they describe and the preferred semantic is seductive. It makes you think it can only be good for you to take drugs, as they are both efficacious and safe. Another reason why patients and doctors generally trust their drugs as being both efficacious and safe is that they think they have been carefully tested by the drug industry and carefully scrutinised by the drug regulatory agencies using high standards before they are allowed on the market. It is the other way round.”	2013	Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime

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