High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients is a book by British physician and academic Ben Goldacre about the pharmaceutical industry, its relationship with the medical profession, and the extent to which it controls academic research into its own products. The book was first published in September 2012 in the UK by the Fourth Estate imprint of HarperCollins. It will be published in January 2013 in the United States by Faber and Faber.