Give people a choice over antidepressants
by Brian Daniels, CCHR United Kingdom In August, it was reported that a one-year-old boy had been prescribed an antidepressant drug. It was a shocking…
by Brian Daniels, CCHR United Kingdom In August, it was reported that a one-year-old boy had been prescribed an antidepressant drug. It was a shocking…
Boston.com – August 18, 2014 By Claudia M. Gold When I hear debate over the association between SSRI’s (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, a class of…
By Kelly Patricia O’Meara November 19, 2013 The U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, recently announced that the rate of mass shootings in the U.S. is…
Patients taking SSRIs were more likely to have obesity, chronic pulmonary disease, and hypothyroidism, which are conditions that could complicate surgery.
Ben Goldacre’s TEDTalk describes the selective bias in research and publishing which strongly favors articles with positive outcomes. In my field of psychiatry, this bias is only the tip of the iceberg. In many cases, the articles are not even written by the scientists whose names appear on them. They are “ghostwritten” by drug company minions.
In my role as a medical expert in product liability lawsuits against drug companies, judges have empowered me to dig into the otherwise secret interiors of drug company data vaults. The following observations have been generated during my forensic investigations and have been documented in my books and scientific articles.