Alessandro Liberati, a football-loving medical philosopher, founder of the Italian Cochrane Centre, and former member of the BMJ editorial board, passed away 12 years ago but is remembered fondly for his passion for evidence-based medicine and improving research quality. He believed in funding independent clinical trials and research and warned against poor and fake research being produced. Liberati’s friend, Drummond Rennie, highlighted the issues in medical research publication. Libraries, including scientific ones in Italian health institutions, are under threat despite their value as free spaces for knowledge and democracy. The importance of libraries is highlighted by authors such as Umberto Eco and calls for their preservation.
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Celebrating Alessandro Liberati, his vision, books, journals, libraries, “anti libraries,” and radical thinking
