Wed.Jan 03, 2024

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Winding Back the Clock: What If the STAR*D Investigators Had Told the Truth?

Mad in America

F or the longest time, the field of psychiatry remained silent about the STAR*D scandal. Ed Pigott and colleagues first published a deconstruction of the study in 2010 , detailing the protocol violations that the STAR*D investigators had employed to inflate the cumulative remission rate, and even after Pigott and collaborators published a RIAT reanalysis of the study findings this past July, there was silence from psychiatry regarding this scandal.

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The Power of Distress in an Unhealthy World

Mad in America

From Psychology Today/Joanna Cheek MD : “People come to see me for help with their depression, anxiety, eating disorder, addiction, or any other label that fails to adequately describe why we hurt. These diagnoses take on a life of their own, where we try to treat ‘the depression’ instead of addressing the problem it’s signalling. But what if depression, anxiety, and the mixture of mental health problems we face aren’t the actual problem?

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Pharma Is Like My Ex by Martha Rosenberg

Mad in America

This cartoon is from my recently published book, Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Lies. Martha Rosenberg is an investigative reporter whose work has appeared in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), Consumer Reports, Public Citizen, the Center for Health Journalism at USC Annenberg, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and other top outlets.

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