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Alan Cassels
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Freelance Contributor, Freelance
Victoria
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Biography
Co-author of the 2005 best seller Selling Sickness on the corporate-backed making of disease. Studied and wrote about the history of evidence-based medicine in The Cochrane Collaboration: Medicine's Best-Kept Secret. Most fascinated with disease mongering and the role of outside actors, particularly those connected to clinical research, pharmaceutical development and health policy who are all implicated in the medicalization of everyday life.
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Content
By Alan Cassels| newwesttimes.com@ I met my local BC Conservative candidate, Tim Thielmann, last week. He was canvassing my neighbourhood here in Victoria as I was cycling back home from the grocery store, so I stopped and introduced myself. I said something out loud I had never in my life said to anyone, least not a Conservative candidate: “I’m going to vote Conservative.” Having voted NDP or Green all of my adult life, switching my vote in this provincial election is a massive U-Turn for me.
By Alan Cassels| Times Colonist Verified A commentary by a pharmaceutical policy researcher who is the author of four books related to drug marketing, evidence-based medicine and disease-mongering. He lives in Victoria. Having looked at drug policy in B.C. for the past 30 years, the one thing we can be proud of is our history of evaluating policies, especially those that concern my area, drug policy. Yet on that point, the B.C. NDP seems to be missing in action, uninterested in analyzing the impact of its health policies.
By Alan Cassels| Times Colonist Verified A commentary by a pharmaceutical policy researcher who is the author of four books related to drug marketing, evidence-based medicine and disease-mongering. He lives in Victoria. This is the first of two commentaries on B.C.’s health policies. Since election season is heating up in British Columbia, it’s worth looking at the track record of the NDP and ask: What can we be proud of, given their last two terms in office?
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