Mad in America

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Dhar: Is this what inspired you to create the “documentary” for ‘Motivational Deficiency Disorder’ and the April Fool piece in BMJ along with it? We investigated social anxiety disorder. Now, spilling forward 20 years, social anxiety disorder is an uncontroversial part of the medical establishment.

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Mad in America

MARCH 15, 2025

This turn to ketamine is occurring despite the fact that the Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly warned that the FDA has not approved ketamine for the treatment of any psychiatric disorder (though controversially approving esketamine nasal spray). accepting personal or office gifts or corporate donations from industry.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

We showed how STAR*D’s authors had manipulated the data to manufacture fraudulent results. NIMH has spent many tens of billions of research dollars over many decades attempting to substantiate a physiological basis for depression and other mental disorders, only to come up empty handed.

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