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

Mad in America

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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STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud

Mad in America

They claim the study found the drugs to be effective treatments for depression, leading to remission in 67% of patients, but this is false; that finding was inflated by various types of research misconduct , even including imaginary remission rates from people who dropped out of the study. He, too, was spurned.