The primary feature of is its provocative argument that the pharmaceutical industry’s business model fulfills the legal criteria for organized crime . Author Peter Gøtzsche, a physician and co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration , uses the U.S. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act as a framework to claim that major drug companies engage in repeated racketeering activities. Key Features and Themes Peter C. Gøtzsche, Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime