Professor Peter Gøtzsche's response to a review about his book

Here is the response of Professor Peter C. Gøtzsche, Director of the Nordic Cochrane Centre to a review about his book and the reviewer's reflection to his response:  

 Peter C Gøtzsche says:

 March 12, 2014 at 11:32 am

 PhD student Tom Yates doesn’t like my book. Everyone is entitled to his own opinion so here is another perspective.I wrote the book in English and it was accepted by the publisher without hesitation. After having translated it into Danish and submitted it one afternoon, I got an email next morning saying that the editors had been reading it all night and were very enthusiastic; they called the book outstanding. The Danish version has been on the bestseller list for many weeks and has sold over 5,000 copies, which is a lot for a country with only 5 million inhabitants. Furthermore, a person who has spent his whole life in the drug industry has bought a special edition of the book, which he is currently giving away for free to the Danish general practitioners because he finds that they and their patients are the primary victims of the criminal behaviour of the drug companies.The book was favourably reviewed by an editor at The Lancet on 1 February:http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2814%2960139-2/fulltext. 
I have received praises from other publishers and the book is currently being translated into Spanish, French, German, Finnish, Russian and Korean, and there is interest in having also a version in Portuguese and Italian. I have been contacted by 18 TV crews from five countries that want to make documentaries and two fictition writers are developing plots based on the book.
Peter C. Gøtzsche
Professor, DrMedSci, MD, Msc
Director of the Nordic Cochrane Centre

Tom Yates says:
March 18, 2014 at 2:23 pm

Dear Peter,
I am glad the book is doing well. Whilst we may disagree about style and over some details, I believe you are fundamentally on the right side in this debate. I hope many of the arguments that you make so forcefully gain wider acceptance.
A luta continua,
Tom