
This is a talk that was given for Consilium Scientific today May 18 at the invitation of Leeza Osipenko. Consilium are doing more than anyone to raise questions about the quality of the evidence we have in medicine – in particular around controlled trials. They have had some fabulous contributions in recent months – all […]
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I am due to give a lecture on Thursday. This LINK and the Link below will let people sign in for this. If God Doesn’t Play Dice, Should Doctors? This talk presents a new history and analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) making the case that while these can be very helpful, at present they […]
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As of today, the BMJ have come on board with the contents of this post. There is an article by Hristio Boytchev – see Maternal RSV Vaccines And an editorial by Elizabeth Robinson and Rosalind Smith – Preventing RSV. Britain’s Daily Mail, possible the best newspaper for coverage of health issues, is also now covering […]
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RCPsych President responds to newspaper coverage on antidepressants 24 April 2023 Dr Adrian James, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, has written to national newspapers responding to recent articles erroneously linking antidepressants to suicide. Here is the full text of the letter. “I was disappointed to read your article, which has potential to unjustifiably […]
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The Daily Telegraph in the UK as well as The Daily Mail carried articles this week on a paper in the journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry by John Read and colleagues that was based on the work of AntidepAware. For over a decade, AntidepAware has been cataloguing inquests in Britain where it appears likely […]