Peter Gotzsche was named Professor of Clinical Research Design and Analysis at the University of Copenhagen in 2010 and was the co founder of the Cochrane Collaboration which was for a long time considered to be the world’s preeminent independent medical research organisation Source. In the position that he has been in and the knowledge he would have accumulated, when Gotzsche writes an article with the title ‘Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death‘ and ‘psychiatric drugs are the third leading cause of death,’ we should all heed his warning that most drug deaths are preventable and most people that have died a prescribed drug death didn’t need them in the first place.

Gøtzsche who has been known to be an outspoken critic of the corruption of science by pharmaceutical companies for years has published more than 97 papers in the “big five” medical journals (JAMA, Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, British Medical Journal, and Annals of Internal Medicine) and authored books on medical issues including Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime. Source

‘We could easily get our drug pandemic under control,’ says Peter who says that this is the tragedy, ‘but when our politicians act, they usually make matters worse’ due to being so heavily lobbied by the drug industry which has made drug regulation ‘much more permissive than it was in the past.’

Read more about the subject from Dr Peter Gotzsche who authored the article below which was originally published by The Brownstone Institute.