Scottish Brain Sciences

A few years ago a senior UK academic in mental health stated gleefully to his colleagues: “It’s boom time in industry!”  I was reminded of this statement when reading this … Continue reading Scottish Brain Sciences

The Psychopharmacology Committee [2023]

Over the last decade I have looked at the governance of the Psychopharmacology Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. My hope was to find improvement in relation to transparency. … Continue reading The Psychopharmacology Committee [2023]

‘To influence others by offering money’

As published in the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin, Volume 60, Number 4, April 2022:

“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”