American Psychological Association Begins Inquiry into Torture Allegations

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"The American Psychological Association (APA) last week named a former federal prosecutor to lead an investigation into its role in supporting the U.S. government’s...

US Government Proposes Stronger Rules for Disclosure of Medical Trial Results

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The US government is proposing to toughen the rules governing medical trials involving human subjects, to help ensure the trials are registered in advance...

Psychiatrists and Psychologists Not Reliable Expert Witnesses

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Psychiatrists and psychologists who work as expert witnesses for the courts are generally no more scientifically knowledgeable or accurate about issues that involve human...

Most Psychologists Still Believe In Recovered Memories

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Pacific Standard features a recent story of a man whose daughter accused him of abuse, but by the end of the court proceedings had...

High-profile Psychiatrist Criticized for Remote, Politicized Diagnosing

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The Associated Press reports on Fox television and Tufts University psychiatrist Keith Ablow, who routinely diagnoses President Barack Obama without ever having met him,...

One-quarter of Physicians Say Medical Research is “Sick”

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In a survey of 315 medical scientists in the Netherlands, 15% "admitted to recently fabricating or falsifying research data," while more than 25% "admitted...

Does Social Psychology Have a “Liberal Bias”?

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In The New Yorker, Maria Konnikova explores the ideas of Jonathan Haidt, who argues that the field of social psychology has a broad bias...

The Federal Report on Financial Relationships Between Pharma Industry and Prescribing Physicians

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The new Social Security Act, an Obamacare-inspired, Open Payments report came out September 30th. As part of the new healthcare reform policy, this federal report requires pharmaceutical and medical device companies to annually share documentation of direct payments they provided to entities such as medical practices and teaching hospitals. But before anyone gets excited and thinks there is finally a reliable and valid monitoring method to document that such payments are minimal as well as on the up and up, please note that 40% of the payment records (considered for inclusion in the 2013 Open Payments report) were not included in the $3.5 billion due to “unresolved questions” being cited.

“Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime” Wins Book Award From British Medical Association

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Peter Gøtzsche's Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime has won first prize in the "Basis of Medicine" category of the British Medical Association's annual book...

Psychologist Reviews The Work and Influence of Thomas Szasz

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Austin Community College adjunct professor and psychologist John Breeding has published a personal, reflective essay in SAGE Open about the work and influence of...

Authorities Ignoring Deaths, Forced Electroshock in Irish Mental Health System

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An internal government investigation found that authorities did not investigate 50% of deaths that occurred inside mental health services in Ireland, reports the Irish...

Australian Physicians Launch “No Drug Ads” Campaign

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A group of physicians and academics in Australia has launched a campaign to ban all pharmaceutical company sales representatives from visiting any medical doctors...

“Boiling Frustration” Among Protesting Psychiatrists

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AlterNet has published a feature story about prominent critical psychiatrist and MIA Foreign Correspondent David Healy, who "says his output and reputation have had...

Pharma Gave US Doctors $3.5 Billion in 5 Months

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"Opening the book on long-hidden industry relationships, the federal government revealed nearly $3.5 billion worth of payments and other ties that U.S. doctors and...

The Problem with Publications Rarely Publishing Dull Results

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Medical, psychiatric, psychology and other scientific studies that simply replicate research, find null results, or get results showing no effects from treatments are far...

Sixty Percent of Canadian Clinical Trials Broke Rules

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Canadian physicians and psychiatrists regularly do not report serious negative side effects during their clinical trials of drugs, according to an investigation by the...

Are Psychiatric Experiments on Primates Ethical — Or Even Truly Useful?

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Pediatric psychiatrist Sujartha Ramakrishna describes a planned University of Wisconsin psychiatric experiment "to discover new therapies by dissecting and analyzing the brains of baby...

“Alarm and Disbelief” as New EU President Moves Regulation of Medicines to Industry Ministry

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The new President-elect of the European Union Jean-Claude Juncker has removed key responsibilities relating to health and medicines from the government Commissioner in charge...

Peter Gøtzsche Tells Daily Show, Big Pharma Like Drug Cartels

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MIA Foreign Correspondent Peter Gøtzsche, author of the book Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime, was interviewed on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon...

Strong Publication Bias Found in Psychology Research

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University of Salzburg researchers analyzed the results of 1,000 randomly-selected published psychology articles from 2007 and found strong evidence of publication biases, according to...

Researchers Faked Data on Epigenetics of Bipolar Disorder

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The British Journal of Psychiatry has issued a retraction of an article purporting to have identified evidence of the epigenetic aspects of bipolar disorder,...

Scientific Journal Corruption to the Nth Power

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A respected Canadian cardiology journal was purchased by offshore investors and "is now printing scientific junk for hire, but still trading on its original...

“High-volume Care, Not Good Care”

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WSJ Live interviews cardiologist Dr. Sandeep Jauhar about his new book, Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician. Jauhar describes "the perverse incentives of...

Internal Eli Lilly Documents Added to Online Archive

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Internal Eli Lilly records about the antipsychotic drug Zyprexa have been added to the University of California's online, publicly accessible Drug Industry Documents Archive...

Public Citizen Criticizes FDA’s Draft Guidelines on Drug Risk Disclosures

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In the wake of a major court decision, the US Food and Drug Administration has issued new guidelines for public comment, covering how pharmaceutical...