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.
