The problem with medical journals

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Episode 17. Professor emeritus Peter C Gøtzsche explains that the main problems with medical journals are the editors’ personal beliefs and the widespread corruption. The editors of BMJ and The Lancet called journals “an extension of the marketing arm of pharmaceutical companies” and “information laundering operations for the pharmaceutical industry,” respectively. Peter’s systematic review of mammography screening was initially supported by Lancet’s editor, Richard Horton, in 2001, but 11 years later, when Lancet published a poor-quality “Yes Minister” whitewash review and Peter criticised it in a Lancet letter, Horton withdrew his membership of the Advisory Board for Peter’s Nordic Cochrane Centre.

Documentation:

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 (freely available).

Gøtzsche PC. Cochrane on a suicide mission. Brownstone Journal 2025;June 20.

Horton R. The Dawn of McScience. The New York Book Review 2004;March 11.

Smith R. Medical journals are an extension of the marketing arm of pharmaceutical companies. PLoS Med 2005;2:e138.

Visions for the new director of the US National Institutes of Health

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Episode 16. The new director of the NIH, Jay Bhattacharya, tells Peter Gøtzsche about his visions for improving the health of Americans. We discuss unreliable science, scientific censorship, the cover-up for the origin of COVID-19, the harmful consequences of the lockdowns, the follies of face mask mandates, that public health messages are often too simple and misleading, the problems with Cochrane and its conflicts of interest related to the drug industry, mammography screening, neurological harms of the HPV vaccines, and that depression drugs double suicides.

Documentation:

Bhattacharya J, Bienen L, Duriseti R, Høeg TB, Kulldorff M, Makary M, Smelkinson M, Templeton S. Questions for a Covid-19 Commission. Norfolk Group 2023; Jan.

Gøtzsche PC. Origin of COVID-19: The biggest cover up in medical history. Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom 2023; Oct 6.

Gøtzsche PC. Sweden did exceptionally well during the COVID-19 pandemic with its open society. Brownstone Institute 2023; March 28.

Gøtzsche PC. False propaganda about face masks and Cochrane editorial misconduct. Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom 2023; Sept 11.

Ioannidis JPA. Cochrane crisis: secrecy, intolerance, and evidence-based values. Eur J Clin Invest 2018; Dec 5.

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

Gøtzsche PC. Whistleblower in healthcare (autobiography). Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom; 2025 (freely available).

Gøtzsche PC. How Merck and drug regulators hid serious harms of the HPV vaccines. New York: Skyhorse; 2025.

Gøtzsche PC. Cochrane on a suicide mission. Brownstone Institute 2025; June 20.

Why did Cochrane expel Peter Gøtzsche?

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Episode 15. Professor John Ioannidis from Stanford University became involved in Cochrane early on. Peter C Gøtzsche interviews John about what was so unique about Cochrane; how their expulsion of one of their best-known researchers after a secret show trial was very unfair and damaging for the organisation; and if the organisation can regain people’s trust.

Documentation:

Ioannidis JPA. Cochrane crisis: secrecy, intolerance, and evidence-based values. Eur J Clin Invest 2018;Dec 5.

Newman M. Has Cochrane lost its way? BMJ 2019;364:k5302.

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

Gøtzsche PC. Death of a whistleblower and Cochrane’s moral collapse. Copenhagen: People’s Press; 2019.

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

Gøtzsche PC. False propaganda about face masks and Cochrane editorial misconduct. Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom 2023; Sept 11.

Gøtzsche PC. Whistleblower in healtcare. Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom: Institute for Scientific Freedom 2025 (freely available).

The Chinese-US joint cover up of the origin of COVID

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Episode 14. In October 2022, the Institute for Scientific Freedom and the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford held a two-day conference about the lack of scientific freedom. Professor emeritus Peter C Gøtzsche explained in a lecture what is likely the worst cover up in the history of medicine, for one of the worst catastrophes ever, of the origin of the virus, which was very likely man-made and escaped from a lab in Wuhan. What Peter said in his lecture has received additional support, and the lecture is therefore still highly relevant.

Documentation:

Gøtzsche PC. Made in China: the coronavirus that killed millions of people. Ind J Med Ethics 2022;7:254-5.

Gøtzsche PC. The head of WHO’s COVID-19 mission reveals China’s total cover up on Danish TV. Institute for Scientific Freedom 2021; Aug 20.

Gøtzsche PC. Origin of the COVID-19 pandemic and banning gain-of-function research. Institute for Scientific Freedom 2021; Nov 20.

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

Editorial Board. China is stepping up its deception and denial in investigations of covid-19. Washington Post 2021; July 23.

Gøtzsche PC. Origin of COVID-19: The biggest cover up in medical history. Brownstone Institute 2023; Oct 9.

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

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