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Last week's post - 18 percent - raised questions about company sponsorship and seeming patient empowerment websites.  A comment by Johanna Ryan afterwards kicked off this follow-up post. Johnson & Johnson gave NAMI $340,000 last year, and $540,000 in … [Read more...] about Recovery from Psychosis

Listen my doctor and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.... You know the rest. In the books you have read How the British regulars fired and fled, — How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farmyard-wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again Under the trees at the turn of the road, And … [Read more...] about Listen doctor and you shall hear

Having previously completed a Masters in Psychology degree, a Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and worked in the addiction fields for 8 years in the UK and Ireland, Martin worked as a ‘Peer Support Specialist’ for a year while in New Zealand.  Due to his criticism of approaches in mental health and the damage he saw being inflicted on people, he left this position … [Read more...] about Being the Right Peer

Editorial Note:  We have run previous posts on mefloquine (Lariam) - the The Strange History of Lariam and Lariam Hell  and quinoline anti-microbial, as well as on a different group of anti-microbials  - the fluoroquinolones - but a lot of their problems overlap.  More to the point, those with Mefloquine problems have faced difficulties from Roche that so many others taking … [Read more...] about Quinism Foundation

Editorial Note: Its an Irish custom to offer one for the road.  Having finished the trilogy on Outsourcing Fascism, here's one for the road. A little over two years ago I wrote two posts - Little Red Riding Hood and Little Red Stethoscope that give me pleasure today - but also make me worry about Alzheimer's figuring that I've rarely hit those heights since. My warm … [Read more...] about Reds Under the Bed: the New McCarthyism

Editorial Note:  This is part three in a sequence of posts that began with Outsourcing Fascism and continued last week with Not Our Nomination.  Our Nomination The RxISK nomination for the SAS JM Prize is Lisa Rosenbaum from the Brigham and Women's hospital in Boston. Dr Rosenbaum has courageously stood up for the mainstream of science on a range of fronts including moral … [Read more...] about Celebrity Science

Editorial Note: This post continues from Outsourcing Fascism.  For more on James Coyne, see Rolf Harris to James Coyne.   Coyne was the perfect candidate for a Sense about Science JM Prize until a few years ago.  He was the first to wade in and rubbish anyone who might have thought there was something wrong with a medication.  His dark past had not come to light.  But … [Read more...] about Not the 2018 Sense about Science JM Prize Nominee

  In 2017 the Sense about Science (SAS) John Maddox (JM) Prize was awarded to to Riko Muranaka for her efforts to counter apparent misinformation about the HPV vaccine. MedWatcher Japan are the group who have helped raise the profile of concerns about the HPV vaccine in Japan. When it comes to tackling the adverse effects of treatments, there is no more … [Read more...] about Outsourcing Fascism