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The New York Times Is Now Engulfed in the STAR*D Scandal

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That is the bottom-line outcome that the STAR*D investigators promoted to the public in November 2006, when it published a summary of the study outcomes in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Then, in November 2006, they published a summary report of outcomes. the STAR*D investigators wrote.

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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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In 2006, the American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) published four reports on STAR*D outcomes. Without these imaginary remissions, the reported remission rate in the November 2006 paper would have been around 50%. Nearly 70% of real-world patients could expect to become symptom free with this use of antidepressants.

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The American Journal of Psychiatry’s Answer to MIA: A Silence that Speaks Volumes

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O n September 9, Mad in America set up a petition on change.org urging the American Journal of Psychiatry to retract its 2006 article that told of a 67% remission rate in the STAR*D trial. At that time, we put up a petition on change.org urging that the Am J of Psychiatry retract the 2006 article. Mad in America, a U.S.

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Investigators Who Blew the Whistle On STAR*D Fraud Call for Retraction of Five AJP Articles

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Miller lauded the scientific rigor of our RIAT reanalysis and stated: “For us in psychiatry, if the BMJ authors are correct, this is a huge setback, as ALL of the publications and policy decisions based on the STAR*D findings that became clinical dogma since 2006 will need to be reviewed, revisited, and possibly retracted.” ” 17, p.7

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After MIA Calls for Retraction of STAR*D Article, Study Authors Double Down on the Fraud

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In concert with our September 9 report, we set up a petition on change.org urging the American Journal of Psychiatry to retract the October 2006 article. In essence, in this letter they doubled-down on the fraud they committed in their 2006 summary report of STAR*D outcomes.

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Scientific Misconduct and Fraud: The Final Nail in Psychiatry’s Antidepressant Coffin

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The problem with this ‘nearly 70%’ story is that the research that has been used to justify it, a 2006 report on the results of the Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression (STAR*D) , has long been disputed by researchers.

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Long-Term Benzo Use Linked to Increased Disability

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The current study used Finland’s nationwide registry and included data on 37,703 people who began taking benzodiazepines in 2006. Unfortunately, they are also very difficult to stop taking, with physical dependence potentially occurring within days , according to the FDA.

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