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In Brain Chemistry We Trust—The Gospel According to Pharma

Mad in America

What began as a wonderful career combining my scientific knowledge with creative writing gradually revealed itself as something far more troubling: I was helping to manufacture “facts” about diseases and treatments that would shape medical practice for decades.

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STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud

Mad in America

We showed how STAR*D’s authors had manipulated the data to manufacture fraudulent results. The same falsehoods are taught in continuing education programs to previously credentialed psychiatrists. In addition, since STAR*D’s publication, the prescription of these drugs is generating and exacerbating depression more than alleviating it.