Kennedy: A new time for America?

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Episode 13. The upcoming President, Donald Trump, has selected Robert F Kenndy, Jr., as the new Secretary of Health. Kennedy is controversial because of his views on vaccines, some of which go against the most reliable evidence we have. But he wants to tackle the widespread corruption at the FDA and to ban ads on TV. Professor emeritus Peter C Gøtzsche discusses with filmmaker Janus Bang what the positive consequences for this could be for the survival and well-being of Americans in case Kennedy gets approved by Congress.

Documentation:

Kennedy RF, Jr. Amerian values. New York: HarperCollins; 2018.

Gøtzsche PC. Survival in an overmedicated world: look up the evidence yourself. Copenhagen: People’s Press; 2019.

Gøtzsche PC. Prescription drugs are the leading cause of death. And psychiatric drugs are the third leading cause of death. Mad in America 2024;April 16.

Gøtzsche PC. Deadly medicines and organised crime: How big pharma has corrupted health care. London: Radcliffe Publishing; 2013.

Gøtzsche PC. Vaccines: truth, lies, and controversy. New York: Skyhorse; 2021.

Gøtzsche PC. The Chinese virus: Killed millions and scientific freedom. Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom; 2022 (freely available).

Why forced treatment with antipsychotics must be stopped

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Episode 12. Professor emeritus Peter C Gøtzsche explains in 18 minutes with filmmaker Janus Bang that antipsychotics don’t have specific antipsychotic effects and don’t have relevant effects against psychosis. Forced treatment with antipsychotics is a serious and unacceptable human rights violation that kills and maims irreversibly millions of patients. This must be stopped.

Documentation:

Gottstein J, Gøtzsche PC, Cohen D, Ruby C, Myers F. Report on improving mental health outcomes. Psychrights 2023:Sept.

Gøtzsche PC. Deadly psychiatry and organised denial. Copenhagen: People’s Press; 2015.

Gøtzsche PC. Critical psychiatry textbook. Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom; 2022. Freely available.

Gøtzsche PC. Is psychiatry a crime against humanity? Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom; 2024. Freely available.

Gøtzsche PC. Seriously misleading testimony by psychiatry professor in Oslo district court about the effect of antipsychotics. Mad in America 2024;Dec 4.

Moncrieff J. The bitterest pills. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan; 2013.

Whitaker R. Anatomy of an epidemic, 2nd edition. New York: Broadway Paperbacks; 2015, page 290.

Whitaker R. Mad in America. Cambridge: Perseus Books Group; 2002

The scandal about STAR*D and antidepressants

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Episode 11. Professor emeritus Peter C Gøtzsche explains in ten minutes with filmmaker Janus Bang why the biggest study of antidepressants ever financed by the US National Institute of Mental Health was a total fraud and that the institute and the psychiatrists don’t care but continue to cite it as if it were true.

Documentation:

Whitaker R. Summing up the STAR*D scandal: The public was betrayed, millions were harmed, and the mainstream media failed us all. Mad in America 2025; Jan 4.

Pigott HE, Kim T, Xu C, et al. What are the treatment remission, response and extent of improvement rates after up to four trials of antidepressant therapies in real-world depressed patients? A reanalysis of the STAR*D study’s patient-level data with fidelity to the original research protocol. BMJ Open 2023;13:e063095. 

Gøtzsche PC. Deadly psychiatry and organised denial. Copenhagen: People’s Press; 2015.

Gøtzsche PC. Mental health survival kit and withdrawal from psychiatric drugs. Ann Arbor: L H Press; 2022.

Gøtzsche PC. Critical psychiatry textbook. Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom; 2022. Freely available.

Gøtzsche PC. Is psychiatry a crime against humanity? Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom; 2024. Freely available.

Why electroshock will likely become abandoned

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Episode 10. Professor of clinical psychology, John Read, University of East London, took an interest in ECT after a couple of shocking experiences when he was young, one of which was that a man was killed on the table, which was covered up by deleting the notes about it. Peter C Gøtzsche interviews John Read about why ECT will likely become abandoned. It is far more dangerous than people realise and the benefit is doubtful.

Documentation:

Read J, Bentall R. The effectiveness of electroconvulsive therapy: a literature review. Epidemiol Psichiatr Soc 2010 Oct-Dec;19:333-47.

Read J. Major adverse cardiac events and mortality associated with electroconvulsive therapy: correcting and updating a 2019 meta-analysis. Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry 2024 Sept: DOI: 10.1891/EHPP-2024-0003.

Mette’s Voice. Documentary 2014 by Katrine Borre.

Gøtzsche PC. Critical psychiatry textbook. Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom; 2022. Freely available.

Gøtzsche PC. Deadly psychiatry and organised denial. Copenhagen: People’s Press; 2015.

Gøtzsche PC. Is psychiatry a crime against humanity? Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom; 2024. Freely available.

Being abused by psychiatry, lies in court, and winning lawsuits to prevent forced drugging

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Episode 09: Lawyer Jim Gottstein from Anchorage has a personal brief experience as a patient with acute psychosis. He has won important lawsuits at the Alaska Supreme Court to prevent forced drugging, thereby defending the basic human rights of psychiatric patients. Peter C Gøtzsche interviews Jim Gottstein about these issues.

Documentation:

Gottstein J. The Zyprexa papers. Anchorage: Jim Gottstein; 2020.

Gøtzsche PC, Sørensen A. Systematic violations of patients’ rights and safety: Forced medication of a cohort of 30 patients. Ind J Med Ethics 2020;Oct-Dec;5(4) NS:312-8.

Tasch G, Gøtzsche PC. Systematic violations of patients’ rights and safety: forced medication of a cohort of 30 patients in Alaska. Psychosis 2023;15:145-54.

Gøtzsche PC. Critical psychiatry textbook. Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom; 2022. Freely available.

Gøtzsche PC. Mental health survival kit and withdrawal from psychiatric drugs. Ann Arbor: L H Press; 2022.

Gøtzsche PC. Deadly psychiatry and organised denial. Copenhagen: People’s Press; 2015.

Gøtzsche PC. Is psychiatry a crime against humanity? Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom; 2024. Freely available.

Should I take an antidepressant?

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Episode 08: Should I take an antidepressant? Professor emeritus Peter C Gøtzsche explains in four minutes what the effects are of depression drugs on depression, the risk of suicide and people’s sex lives. For more information, see articles and books on https://scientificfreedom.dk

Why is mammography screening a bad idea?

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Episode 06: Professor emerita Cornelia Baines from the University of Toronto was a primary investigator in the Canadian National Breast Screening Study. Peter C Gøtzsche discusses with Cornelia Baines the false propaganda for breast screening and how its proponents have constantly harassed anyone who told the truth.

Documentation:

Miller AB, Baines CJ, To T, Wall C. Canadian National Breast Screening Study: 1. Breast cancer detection and death rates among women aged 40 to 49 years. CMAJ 1992;147:1459-76.

Miller AB, Baines CJ, To T, Wall C. Canadian National Breast Screening Study: 2. Breast cancer detection and death rates among women aged 50 to 59 years. CMAJ 1992;147:1477-88.

Miller AB, Wall C, Baines CJ, Sun P, To T, Narod SA. Twenty five year follow-up for breast cancer incidence and mortality of the Canadian National Breast Screening Study: randomised screening trial. BMJ 2014;348:g366.

Gøtzsche PC. Mammography screening: truth, lies and controversy. London: Radcliffe Publishing; 2012.

Gøtzsche PC. Mammography screening: the great hoax. Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom 2024 (in press).

How can patients be safely withdrawn from their psychiatric drugs

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Episode 07: Training Psychiatrist and Clinical Research Fellow in the UK National Health Service, Mark Horowitz, has published guidance about how to withdraw safely from psychiatric drugs. Peter C Gøtzsche interviews Mark Horowitz who gives practical advice about how to taper the drugs in a hyperbolic fashion. He also recounts his personal experience of horrific withdrawal symptoms when he tried to withdraw a depression drug and did not know how to do it.

Documentation:

Horowitz MA, Taylor D. Tapering of SSRI treatment to mitigate withdrawal symptoms. Lancet Psychiatry 2019;6:538-46 (behind a paywall).

Horowitz M, Taylor DM.The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines: Antidepressants, Benzodiazepines, Gabapentinoids and Z-drugs (The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines Series) 2024.

Gøtzsche PC. Mental health survival kit and withdrawal from psychiatric drugs. Ann Arbor: L H Press; 2022.

Gøtzsche PC. Withdrawing from psychiatric drugs: How to produce smaller doses than those the drug companies provide. Mad in America 2023; Nov 21.

The rise and demise of the Cochrane Collaboration

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Episode 05: Science journalist Alan Cassels, University of Victoria, British Columbia, was asked by the Cochrane leadership to write a book to celebrate Cochrane’s 20th anniversary in 2013. Peter C Gøtzsche discusses with Cassels why Cochrane’s CEO, journalist Mark Wilson, killed his book about Cochrane and why the most important organisation established in healthcare in the last 100 years seems to have collapsed. We hope that somehow a new Cochrane will come out of the ashes.

Documentation:

Cassels A. The Cochrane Collaboration: medicine’s best-kept secret. Victoria: Agio Publishing House; 2015.

Demasi M. Cochrane – a sinking ship? BMJ 2018; Sept 16.

Gøtzsche PC. Cochrane – no longer a Collaboration. BMJ 2018; Nov 8.

Gøtzsche PC. Death of a whistleblower and Cochrane’s moral collapse. København: People’s Press; 2018.

Gøtzsche PC. Decline and fall of the Cochrane empire. Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom; 2022 (freely available).

Gøtzsche PC. Cochrane’s demise: misleading denigration of benzodiazepines for acute psychosis. Mad in America 2023; June 3.

Gøtzsche PC. Cochrane reviews of psychiatric drugs are untrustworthy. Mad in America 2023; Sept 14.

Gøtzsche PC. “Why we resigned” from the Cochrane Governing Board. Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom 2023; Dec 6.

Gøtzsche PC. My career in exposing fraud, bias and injustice in healthcare. Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom 2023; Dec 4.

The myths of the chemical imbalance and the chemical cure for psychiatric disorders

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Episode 04: Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry at University College London, Joanna Moncrieff, is co-founder of the Critical Psychiatry Network based in the UK and has advocated for far less use of psychiatric drugs for decades, in scientific articles and books. Peter C Gøtzsche discusses with Professor Joanna Moncrieff what critical psychiatry is about; why psychiatric drugs are much overused and based on false premises; and how the disease centred and the drug centred model for psychiatric drugs can help explain the predicament we are in.

Documentation:

Moncrieff J. The bitterest pills: the troubling story of antipsychotic drugs. Palgrave Macmillan; 2013.

Moncrieff J. The myth of the chemical cure: a critique of psychiatric drug treatment. Palgrave Macmillan; 2007.

Moncrieff J. A straight talking introduction to psychiatric drugs. PCCS Books; 2013.

Demasi M, Gøtzsche PC. Presentation of benefits and harms of antidepressants on websites: cross sectional study. Int J Risk Saf Med 2020;31:53-65.

Gøtzsche PC. The Norwegian Psychiatric Association propagates dangerous misinformation about their specialty. Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom 2023; Aug 30.

Coupland C, Dhiman P, Morriss R, et al. Antidepressant use and risk of adverse outcomes in older people: population based cohort study. BMJ 2011;343:d4551.

Whitaker R. Anatomy of an epidemic, 2nd edition. New York: Broadway Paperbacks; 2015.

Horowitz MA, Taylor D. Tapering of SSRI treatment to mitigate withdrawal symptoms. Lancet Psychiatry 2019;6:538-46.

Moncrieff J, Cooper RE, Stockmann T, et al. The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence. Mol Psychiatry 2022; July 20.

Moncrieff J, Cooper RE, Stockmann T, et al. The serotonin hypothesis of depression: both long discarded and still supported? Mol Psychiatry 2023; June 23.

Gøtzsche PC. Critical psychiatry textbook. Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom; 2022. Freely available.

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