Meta-Analytic SuperSpreader outlined a disturbing sequence of events leading up to the publication of an article by Andrea Cipriani and colleagues effectively promoting the benefits of antidepressants. Andrea and colleagues are part of an Oxford University Precision Psychiatry 'lab'. The idea that this article in some way helps move us toward a precision psychiatry is … [Read more...] about Michael Hengartner, Andrea Cipriani and Frontiers in Psychiatry
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PIMsPlus: Medication Reference Site
Taper MD today launched PIMsPlus.org, a new free searchable resource for safer medication use which is focused on Potentially Inappropriate Medications (PIMs): medications that should be used with caution in older adults because research and clinical experience with these medications have shown that the risk of adverse effects can outweigh the benefits. The aim of … [Read more...] about PIMsPlus: Medication Reference Site
Meta-Analytic Super-Spreader
In a recent post Infection Super-Spreaders, I outlined the disturbing publication of an article by Andrea Cipriani and colleagues that gives a green light to prescribing antidepressants to children. Prescribing antidepressants to children could even be part of Precision Psychiatry - a new Oxford University brand to complement Evidence Based Medicine. Concerned about … [Read more...] about Meta-Analytic Super-Spreader
O’Neill, O’Neill and Frontiers Psychiatry
O'Neill is just about the most famous Northern Irish surname - on both sides of the 'divide'. I wrote to Onora O'Neill, 3 weeks ago, following the last post. There has not been a response. My email may have gone into spam but if it has further emails likely will also. Faced with issues like this, many public figures, not unreasonably, may think not responding is more … [Read more...] about O’Neill, O’Neill and Frontiers Psychiatry
TRUST ME I’M NOT A DOCTOR
Infection Super-Spreaders, with Michael Hengartner’s comment... I cannot recommend rejection, as this would mean to reject about 90% of clinical research and call into question everything EBM has achieved, including the Cochrane collaboration. .. opens up an unsettling vista. Calling into question EBM, and the Cochrane Collaboration, has echoes that are little short of well … [Read more...] about TRUST ME I’M NOT A DOCTOR
Infection Super-Spreaders: Whose Department?
This is a murky story that like Study 329, to which it links, doesn’t leave anyone looking good. First the journal – Frontiers in Psychiatry – which is one of the Frontiers group of journals. As outlined in Neo-Culturalism - a must read to get what is going on here and being done to all of us - there is no-one at home in Frontiers. There is a vacuum where once the soul (or … [Read more...] about Infection Super-Spreaders: Whose Department?
Stormy Weather II
SWI There was a fuss after Stormy Weather. A colleague got in touch to ask if my twitter feed had been hacked - he'd been copied in on some weird stuff. I went on twitter to check - I rarely check things out. And noticed 250 notifications - the first few of which were all about Fake News and the like and seemed semi-angry and semi-amused. It turned out there were only … [Read more...] about Stormy Weather II
Stormy Weather I
If it appears in the New York Times it must be true but in truth we have no evidence that Stormy Daniels or Donald Trump or Joe Biden have PSSD or PFS or any related conditions - although there was considerable gossip at one point claiming Donald was taking Finasteride. Probably just Fake News. There is a fairy tale quality to the story you see here - an Arabian Night's … [Read more...] about Stormy Weather I
Swallowed Whole or Murdered: Malcharist
Patrick Hahn has written the first Riff on Malcharist which is now posted on Samizdat reproduced below. What Paddy Chayefsky’s Network was to the Twentieth Century, Paul John Scott’s Malcharist is to the Twenty-First. This is a novel that takes the reader deep inside the Pharmaceutical Empire which invents diseases, creates “patient advocacy organizations” to sell these … [Read more...] about Swallowed Whole or Murdered: Malcharist
Malcharist
Samizdat announces the release of Malcharist by Paul John Scott. This is a grippingly realistic page-turner about the corruption of clinical trials told through the crisis of conscience of a medical ghostwriter. Set in Manhattan in 2010 and laced with dark humor throughout its fast 352 pages, it finds Shivani Patel in its opening chapters in a Town Car with a private driver, … [Read more...] about Malcharist