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Winding Back the Clock: What If the STAR*D Investigators Had Told the Truth?

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The results , which Rush reported in 2004 , were dispiriting. Only 26% of the real-world patients responded to the antidepressant during the first year of treatment (meaning that their symptoms decreased by at least 50% on a rating scale), and only about half of that group had a “sustained response.” Show 2 footnotes D.

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Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

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American psychiatry has weathered the crisis; it will not have to confront a public stunned by news of how the oft-cited 67% cumulative remission rate, in the largest and longest study ever done to evaluate depression treatment,” was born of scientific misconduct.

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Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?

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Psychiatric News reported in 2024 that PubMed shows more than 400 trials of ketamine as a depression treatment in the past decade; however, it also reports that G. The same disregard for the scientific method that establishment psychiatry evidenced in standard antidepressant drug trials is now evident with ketamine.