False Science

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

Walter Freedman (left) with James Watts avidly promoted and performed lobotomies in the United States, leaving behind tens of thousands of victims.

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

Psychiatry has spent years trashing its own credibility by polluting its research record to the point it simply cannot be taken at face value.

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.

Roger Whitaker, Journalist For more information, including links to the scientific evidence base for the statements in this video, as well as further resources: http://medicatingnormal.com/… Read More »How Much Might Big Pharma Pay An Academic Psychiatrist to Lie?

Thomas Szasz on The Myth of Mental Illness

Psychiatrist and social critic Thomas Szasz unsettled the psychiatric establishment in the 1960’s, challenging its foundational notions around normalcy, mental illness and treatment. In this… Read More »Thomas Szasz on The Myth of Mental Illness