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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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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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Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?

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For example, one of establishment psychiatrys most prominent researchers Kenneth Kendler noted in 2011, Although the DHS stimulated much science, most efforts to empirically validate it have failed. Nonetheless, the DHS has held the status of a scientific paradigm defended by some with great avidity.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Five)

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667 In an NIMH study of 547 patients that compared six-year outcomes for depressed people treated for the disorder and those who eschewed medical treatment, the treated patients were three times more likely than untreated ones to suffer a cessation of their principal social role and nearly seven times more likely to become incapacitated.