verdensalt | ~ Dr Gøtzsche has identified big pharma as organized crime, attached a lot of holy cows, now sacked by the industry, based on scientific miscarriage of justice ~ | Blogger: " I never thought it could happen to me in a country like Den- mark", he says to a danish newspaper from December 2018: "That Denmark´s leading hospital for patients needing highly specialised treatment, Rigshospitalet, fires a civil servant without prior official warning, co-founder of the Cochrane collaboration 25 years ago, and has created the Nordic Cochrane Center out of nothing and made it a world-class research center.". "It is a full-fledged scandal that the Hospital, has fired me. It is a clear attack on both independent research and freedom of speech"... |

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.

Dr.Gøtzsche has been critical of screening for breast cancer using mammography, arguing that it cannot be justified; His critique stems from a meta-analysis he did on mammography screening studies and published as Is screening for breast cancer with mammography justifiable? in The Lancet in 2000. In it he discarded 6 out of 8 studies arguing their randomization was inadequate.

In 2006 a paper by Gøtzsche on mammography screening was electronically published in the European Journal of Cancer ahead of print. The journal later removed the paper completely from the journal website without any formal retraction. The paper was later published in Danish Medical Bulletin with a short note from the editor, and Gøtzsche and his coauthors commented on the unilateral retraction that the authors were not involved in.

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. http://www.cochrane.org/

Peter C. Gøtzsche: Min fyring er et videnskabeligt justitsmord