In his article in Lancet Psychiatry, “Drug development in psychiatry: 50 years of failure and how to resuscitate it,” leading UK psychiatrist, David Nutt, inadvertently kills his own specialty. As I show in my commentary, Nutt puts the blame for psychiatry’s failure outside psychiatry. He propagates the lie about the chemical imbalance causing psychiatric disorders […]

These are the first four paragraphs in my autobiography: HC Andersen’s fairy tale, The emperor’s new clothes, is my favourite, as it illustrates so well what most of the healthcare literature is about: deception. The authorities are often willing to lie about the evidence and they continue lying when you point this out to them,

The nauseating political correctness has now also crept into surveys about how to do good research even though extremely rare gender issues have absolutely nothing to do with this. The misguided signals of tolerance and inclusivity has been caused by the deplorable activism of a small minority of highly vocal, aggressive and intolerant people who

When Kirsten Tolstrup, cardiologist and professor at the University of California San Francisco, spoke about the COVID-19 vaccines in an interview in Ugeskrift for Læger (Journal of the Danish Medical Association), she accused the US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., of blatant lies. The one who lied was Tolstrup.

Why did people go crazy over face masks when they don’t seem to work? In Denmark, you could stroll along a golf course without a mask if you weren’t playing golf, but if you were a golfer, a face mask was obligatory. I was ordered to wear a face mask if I played badminton but

My book will be published on 19 August by Skyhorse in New York (288 pages). It can be pre-ordered here. Book description This is a story of scientific misconduct, committed by Merck, the fourth biggest drug company in the world. Merck has committed scientific misconduct before, and the author describes the fraud related to Merck’s

By Martin Hemberger Diplom Wirtschaftsinformatiker (FH) Würzburg, Germany A dangerous misconception, deeply embedded in psychiatry, is that the return of symptoms after discontinuing psychiatric medication is a relapse of the original condition. For many patiens, including me, this belief has led to misdiagnosis, suffering, and unnecessary, prolonged exposure to harmful drugs. What psychiatry labels as

In 2003, Tim, known to most as Woody, died of a sertraline-induced suicide at age 37. He was not depressed, nor did he have any history of mental illness. He died after taking the drug for five weeks with the dosage being doubled shortly before his death. He was given the antidepressant by his general physician

Cecily Bostock was a musician, an artist, an over-achiever in almost everything she did. She was having a lot of trouble sleeping, had racing thoughts, was over-analysing, and was overly sensitive. This prompted a prescription of paroxetine. Her mother Sara said that within three weeks of taking Seroxat, Cecily became a totally different person. “The last

Candace was a happy 12-year-old girl who had never been depressed or had suicidal ideation. She was prescribed sertraline because she suffered from school anxiety. Her mother Mathy found her beautiful little girl hanging, her knees drawn up. Her father knew the minute he saw her that it was too late but tried to administer CPR,