Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

Pigott and colleagues published articles in 2015 and 2018 on the STAR*D trial, and each time Mad in America reviewed the articles. This would seem to meet the legal criteria for libel, given that both the STAR*D authors and the AJP knew that Pigott and colleagues had done no such thing.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The number of pharmaceutical products in the home today is unprecedented—and drugs, both legal and illegal, continue to be the leading cause of child poisoning. A review of poisonings among children age 5 and younger found that opioids were the leading cause of fatal poisonings between 2005 and 2018.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Psychiatry cites twin studies as the gold standard in support of the discipline’s disputed claim that psychiatric conditions such as depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia are genetically based brain disorders only minimally influenced by environmental factors or “triggers.” Bouchard, Jr.,

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