Mad in America
MARCH 5, 2025
Siem: Around 2005 or 2006? He started college in 2004, so this would have been 2005 or 2006. I dont know this for a fact, but Id bet a lot of money goes into The New York Times from pharmaceutical advertising. At the time, I didnt know much about it, but I knew it wasnt good. I told Richard, Look, this stuff isnt good for you.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
My first column was about David Foster Wallace, whose ‘This is Water’ commencement address at Kenyon College (2005) had become a touchstone ( see transcript here , and audio recording here ). To paraphrase Wallace’s last words to the Kenyon College Class of 2005: We will need way more than luck.
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Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
That rate has been increasing rapidly: “From 2006 to 2014, the number of serious ADEs reported to the FDA increased 2-fold… A previously published study… found that from 1998 to 2005, there was a 2.6-fold Such optimism would be disappointed by dwindling pharmaceutical progress in the later half of the century.
Mad in America
JANUARY 4, 2025
In our 2015 book Psychiatry Under the Influence , Lisa Cosgrove and I wrote about the STAR*D scandal in depth, as it served as an example of the institutional corruption in psychiatry due to pharmaceutical interests and psychiatrys own guild interests. The 12 STAR*D authors listed a collective total of 151 ties to pharmaceutical companies.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 31, 2023
Pharmaceutical companies, exerting their influence on academic psychiatry through lucrative honoraria and advisory board payments, have clearly played a role in how antidepressant risks have been presented. This notable gap has raised some suspicion that the necessary research has not merely been overlooked but deliberately avoided.
Mad in America
MARCH 9, 2024
Philips AIDS Center in a village near Anjar, Gujarat was established by Father Paul on 11 January 2005, after he lost his nephew Philip, 31 years old to AIDS. NIGHT Night at Philip AIDS Center. He named the place Philipdham (Philip-after his nephew, dham- Hindi word for abode).
Mad in America
JANUARY 9, 2024
Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. In 2005, Iain Chalmers, the head of Cochrane, testified that ghostwriting is rare and only happens in peripheral journals who publish the dodgy stuff. Doctors adamantly insist they are not influenced by adverts. They go by the evidence.
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