BAP Summer Meeting: “50 years of hurt?”

This CME session for BAP takes place on Monday. The session is chaired by Dr Sameer Jauhar: BAP provides this summary of the session: Several contributors to this BAP session … Continue reading BAP Summer Meeting: “50 years of hurt?”

BAP: Advancing psychopharmacology

This is one of tomorrow’s educational sessions at the BAP Summer Meeting: BAP provide this summary for tomorrows CME meeting: Contributing to this CME meeting: Professor Guy Goodwin is a … Continue reading BAP: Advancing psychopharmacology

“The RULES of SCIENCE”

A small group of influential British academic psychiatrists criticize others for failing to follow “the Rules of Science”.  Science is more than a word. It starts with a world of … Continue reading “The RULES of SCIENCE”

“What a moment to join the party”

A selection of material on Professor Guy Goodwin, a career-long paid opinion leader. Please click on each image for context [please note this is not a chronological timeline]: BBC Panorama: … Continue reading “What a moment to join the party”

Who’s paying your doctor

BBC Panorama: Who’s paying your doctor? first aired 14 April 2014: Nearly a decade has passed since this BBC investigation was first aired.  I am sharing it again as we … Continue reading Who’s paying your doctor

“Attacks on antidepressants”

As published in the Lancet, July 2014: Four-out-of-five of the authors of this ‘correspondence’ are known to have repeatedly worked  for the pharmaceutical industry and three-out-of-five are career-long  paid opinion … Continue reading “Attacks on antidepressants”

“uncritical partisan narrative”

In a previous post I shared this paper: The declarations of interest were given as follows: I have written the following open letter to the lead author: Sent: 22 May … Continue reading “uncritical partisan narrative”

“Antidepressants, withdrawal and addiction: where are we now?”

This perspective has just been published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. My brief response to one of the authors can be read here, alongside further details of the competing interests of … Continue reading “Antidepressants, withdrawal and addiction: where are we now?”