‘To influence others by offering money’
As published in the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin, Volume 60, Number 4, April 2022:
Tag: paid opinion leaders are a blot on medicine’s integrity and we should make them a thing of the past
“Promulgating therapeutic recommendations”
The following letter, written by Dr Philip Cowen and Dr Chris Thompson, was published in the BMJ in October 1994 [this, as it happens, being mid-way through the ‘Defeat Depression … Continue reading “Promulgating therapeutic recommendations”
“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”
Who is wagging the dogs tail?
Before I retired as an NHS psychiatrist I made a ‘Subject Access’ inquiry to the Royal College of Psychiatrists. The heavily redacted response revealed that the College operates in dark … Continue reading Who is wagging the dogs tail?