Peter C. Gøtzsche

Peter Christian Gøtzsche (born 26 November 1949) is a Danish physician, medical researcher, and former leader of the Nordic Cochrane Center at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration and has written numerous reviews for the organization. His membership in Cochrane was terminated by its Governing Board of Trustees on 25 September 2018. The British Medical Journal (BMJ) extensively covered Peter Gøtzsche's expulsion from the Cochrane Collaboration, framing it as a major crisis involving governance, transparency, and conflicts of interest.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, a vocal vaccine advocate David H. Gorski, a surgical oncologist at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute published on Science-Based Medicine (SBM) on March 21, 2023 the article, where he critiques a preprint systematic review "Serious Harms of the Covid-19 Vaccine" by Peter Gøtzsche and Maryanne Demasi. While the article raises valid methodological concerns about the preprint, it exhibits notable spin, confirmation bias, and some logical fallacies. Provided by Wikipedia