Professor Peter Gøtzsche
"BIG PHARMA IS ORGANIZED CRIME" - WHISTLEBLOWER PETER C. GØTZSCHE REVEALS PHARMA’S DIRTY SECRETS
The PBD Podcast, hosted by Patrick Bet-David. Patrick sits down with whistleblower and author Dr. Peter C. Gøtzsche, who reveals why he calls Big Pharma “organized crime,” exposing the industry’s bribery, corruption, and dangerous practices hidden behind prescription drugs and corporate power.
EPISODE 15. WHY DID COCHRANE EXPEL PETER GØTZSCHE?
Professor John Ioannidis from Stanford University became involved in Cochrane early on. Peter C Gøtzsche interviews John about what was so unique about Cochrane; how their expulsion of one of their best-known researchers after a secret show trial was very unfair and damaging for the organisation; and if the organisation can regain people's trust.
EPISODE 11. THE SCANDAL ABOUT STAR*D AND ANTIDEPRESSANTS
Professor emeritus Peter C Gøtzsche explains in ten minutes with filmmaker Janus Bang why the biggest study of antidepressants ever financed by the US National Institute of Mental Health was a total fraud and that the institute and the psychiatrists don't care but continue to cite it as if it were true.
EPISODE 09. BEING ABUSED BY PSYCHIATRY, LIES IN COURT, AND WINNING LAWSUITS TO PREVENT FORCED DRUGGING
Lawyer Jim Gottstein has a personal brief experience as a patient with acute psychosis. He has won important lawsuits at the Alaska Supreme Court to prevent forced drugging, thereby defending the basic human rights of psychiatric patients.
EPISODE 07. HOW CAN PATIENTS BE SAFELY WITHDRAWN FROM THEIR PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS?
Peter C Gøtzsche interviews Mark Horowitz who gives practical advice about how to taper psychiatric drugs in a hyperbolic fashion. He also recounts his personal experience of horrific withdrawal symptoms when he tried to withdraw a depression drug.
EPISODE 05. THE RISE AND DEMISE OF THE COCHRANE COLLABORATION
Peter C Gøtzsche and Alan Cassels discuss why the most important organisation established in healthcare in the last 100 years seems to have collapsed. Is there hope that somehow a new Cochrane will rise out of the ashes?
EPISODE 04. THE MYTHS OF THE CHEMICAL IMBALANCE AND THE CHEMICAL CURE FOR PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS
Peter C Gøtzsche discusses with Professor Joanna Moncrieff what critical psychiatry is about; why psychiatric drugs are much overused and based on false premises; and how the disease centred and the drug centred model for psychiatric drugs can help explain the predicament we are in.
EPISODE 01. BIG PHARMA, THE CORRUPTION OF SCIENCE, AND MILLIONS OF UNNECESSARY DEATHS
Professor emeritus Peter C Gøtzsche explains big pharma's business model of organised crime; that prescribed drugs are the third leading cause of death worldwide; the broken drug approval system; that deaths are missing from published reports; the destruction of the once trusted scientific organisation The Cochrane Collaboration; censorship in medical publishing; and why Cochrane now seems to be a slowly dying institution.
DEATH OF A WHISTLEBLOWER AND COCHRANE'S MORAL COLLAPSE
In this talk, delivered as part of a CrossFit Health event at CrossFit Headquarters on June 8, 2019, Gøtzsche shares the research that led to his fallout with The Cochrane Collaboration — research related to antidepressants and other pharmaceuticals, mammograms, and more — as well as his firsthand experiences as he witnessed what he characterizes as Cochrane’s moral collapse.
HOW TO SURVIVE IN AN OVERMEDICATED WORLD?
In How to Survive in an Overmedicated World Peter Gøtzsche is providing patients some tools to identify reliable information in the labyrinth of different interests, facts, opinions and good intentions from doctors, aid workers and the pharmaceutical industry. Peter Gøtzsche will engage in a conversation led by Natasja van den Berg with Rob Dijkstra (Head of the Dutch College of General Practitioners) and former doctor and epidemiologist Dick Bijl.
ABOUT COCHRANE
Professor Peter C Gøtzsche: Why did we get a Cochrane Collaboration and what is it like today? What has gone wrong since a new CEO was appointed in 2012? Nordic Cochrane Centre's 25th Anniversary Research Symposium, 12 October 2018. The talk was not filmed at the symposium but at a repetition the next day, without an audience.
WITHDRAWAL OF PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS
Research seminar about depression pills in Copenhagen in June 2018. Arranged by the Nordic Cochrane Centre. With Professor Peter Gøtzsche, psychiatric survivor Laura Delano, pharmacist Bertel Rüdinger & psyhologist and PhD student Anders Sørensen.
APA COUNTER-CONFERENCE 2018
Protesting the American Psychiatric Association from May 6 - 9, 2018. Peter Gøtzsche is the Director of the Nordic Cochrane Center in Copenhagen and a professor of research design and analysis at University of Copenhagen. Peter is co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration, formed in 1993, which conducts the world's most thorough independent analysis of healthcare research.
PSYCHIATRIC MEDS WITHDRAWAL + Q & A
Why is it so difficult to quit psychotropics and why are so many doctors unwilling to help? How should it be done? The speakers discuss these issues and give practical advice about slow tapering. Prof. Peter Gøtzsche's short summary is followed up by a Q&A with all the speakers: Psychiatrist Lisbeth Kortegaard, pharmacists Birgit Toft and Bertel Rüdinger, and psychologist Olga Runciman. "Safe Withdrawal from Psychiatric Medications" Conference 2017, at Bethesda in Copenhagen.
ANTIDEPRESSANT WITHDRAWAL
Safe Withdrawal from Antidepressants - Dr. Peter Gøtzsche. Why is it so difficult to quit psychotropics? Have you tried to help someone or tried, yourself to withdraw from psychiatric medications without success? Do you want to find out how to safely withdraw from these drugs and avoid the very worst abstinence symptoms? "Safe Withdrawal from Psychiatric Medications" Conference 2017, at Bethesda in Copenhagen.
"PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD"
Professor Peter Gøtzsche, a world-renowned medical researcher, who has spearheaded the critical appraisal of many of our most common medical practices, such as mammography and preventive medications. In this video, prof. Götzsche “transilluminates” our current psychiatric practices. FICEBO - Finnish Centre for Evidence-Based Orthopaedics.
52nd MAUDSLEY DEBATE: MORE HARM THAN GOOD?
The long term use of psychiatric medications is causing more harm than good.' Chair: Professor Til Wykes. For - Professor Sami Timimi, Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist; Professor Peter Gøtzsche, Director, The Nordic Cochrane Centre, Denmark. Against - Professor Allan Young, Professor of Mood Disorders, IoPPN; Mr John Crace, Journalist, The Guardian.
DR PETER GØTZSCHE TALKS ABOUT HIS BACKGOUND AND EXPLANS THE COCHRANE COLLABORATION
Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD is a Danish medical researcher, and leader of the Nordic Cochrane Center at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has written numerous reviews within the Cochrane collaboration
OVERDIAGNOSED & OVERMEDICATED
Talk by Professor Peter Gøtzsche at the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia 11 February 2015. In his talk, Peter will discuss the various ways in which psychiatry may be harming rather than helping its patients, citing evidence from his latest book "Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How big pharma has corrupted healthcare".
DEADLY MEDICINE AND ORGANISED CRIME - HOW BIG PHARMA IS CORRUPTING HEALTHCARE
Prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. In his latest ground-breaking book, Peter C. Gøtzsche exposes the pharmaceutical industries and their charade of fraudulent behavior, both in research and marketing where the morally repugnant disregard for human lives is the norm.
HAI EUROPE - DR. PETER GØTZSCHE -WHY IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO HAVE ACCESS TO ALL MEDICAL RESEARCH DATA
Dr. Peter Gøtzsche (Danish Cochrane Collaboration) speaking about why it is so important to have access to all data. The article "Why we need easy access to all data from all clinical trials and how to accomplish it" by Dr. Peter Gøtzsche is available here: http://bit.ly/UQ9azr
HAI EUROPE - Q&A SESSION 2: ACCESS TO MEDICAL RESEARCH DATA IN THE EU
Q&A Session two: Dr. Peter Gøtzsche (Nordic Cochrane Centre), Mr. Fergal O' Regan, (Office of the European Ombudsman), Dr. Hans-Georg Eichler (European Medicines Agency), Ms. Deborah Cohen (British Medical Journal), Ms. Teresa Leonardo Alves (La Revue Prescrire), Mr. Tamás Bereczky (European AIDS Treatment Group) and Ms. Irene Schipper (Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, SOMO) Tom Jefferson (Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections Group).
Danish physician, medical researcher and co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration known for his work on pharmaceutical industry influence and medication safety.






































