It is the title of this blog because the raven is what many health journalists are using against us – our own fears of cancer and pandemics, sickness and death – in order to sell their newspapers.
I am a journalist working for a well-known pharmaceutical trade magazine and I come across misinformation from health journalists and, more scarily, the pharma industry on a daily basis.
Given the nature of my publication, I cannot always publish the full truth and, even if I could, it would be read predominately by pharma – an industry that has no wish to read about its own shortcomings.
This is why I would send off the more interesting – and downright scandalous stories to blogger whistleblowers. The last time I did this was with Dr Ben Goldacre who, although happy to take on the story, suggested I was better placed to write up the individual occurrences of bad pharma and bad health journalists.
So here it is, a blog about bag health journalists and bad pharma from an insider.
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