Cause of Death: Unknown – Big Pharma & the selling of mental illness
Award winning doc exposing the inner workings of the pharmaceutical industry and how it created an epidemic of mental illness.
False Science
Antipsychotics – a horrible replacement for even worse alternatives
When the first antipsychotic, chlorpromazine, emerged in the 1950s it was gleefully described by psychiatrists as a ‘chemical lobotomy’ – as though this was something to aim for.
Chemical imbalance – psychiatry as a pharma marketing tool
Despite hundreds, if not thousands of contributions from psychiatrists in support of the chemical imbalance theory, some leading voices in the field deny there ever was a theory and the public have been misled. It was all somehow pharmaceutical marketing at fault.
ECT: Is this the best you can do?
It is estimated that the use of ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy) in the USA alone provides around 1.8 billion dollars in annual income to psychiatry. It is big business and that business is being protected.
Neuroscience is failing psychiatry
“Unfortunately, it is still not possible to cite a single neuroscience or genetic finding that has been of use to the practicing psychiatrist in managing these illnesses despite attempts to suggest the contrary.”
The lunacy of lobotomy
If any activity in psychiatry conjures up pictures of lunatic psychiatrists running around performing sadistic human experimentation on terrified patients, it is lobotomy.
How psychiatry polluted itself
Credibility As with just about any science, profession or activity, the research record on which the activity is based should be pure – not open… Read More »How psychiatry polluted itself
Euthanasia for the mentally ill – the slippery slope
Slippery slope? In the debates regarding euthanasia, you hear a lot about the “slippery slope”. Simply, this is where small steps are taken, and often… Read More »Euthanasia for the mentally ill – the slippery slope
Commercial interests have captured mental health
Is there anything not influenced by money? To answer this question, if there is anything, it isn’t very important. Commercial interests, Big Pharma, and device… Read More »Commercial interests have captured mental health
The placebo effect and why it really does matter
What is it? You may have heard of “placebo” or the “placebo effect” in relation to drug trials where some of the participants were given… Read More »The placebo effect and why it really does matter
The Dark side of Science: The Lobotomy, the worst surgery in history?
A lobotomy, or leucotomy as it was originally known, was a form of psychosurgery, a neurosurgical treatment of a mental disorder that involves severing connections in the brain’s prefrontal cortex and left many a shell of their former selves
ADHD is BS
If you are certain that amphetamines are good for impulsive/inattentive children DON’T WATCH ADHD is BS. Watch ADHD is BS, have a laugh, and then get serious and do something to help end this profitable, hypocritical, pseudo-scientific, twenty-first century form of child abuse.