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How Merck and drug regulators hid serious harms of the HPV vaccines

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 […]

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Withdrawal symptoms are not relapse of the disease: A patient’s view on how psychiatry mislabels neurochemical rebound

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

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Case stories of suicides caused by antidepressants: Cecily Bostock

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

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Case stories of suicides caused by antidepressants: Jake McGill Lynch

Jake’s mother, Stephanie, describes her son as a beautiful, bright 14-year old boy. In late 2011, he was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome in an extremely mild form (the diagnosis of Asperger’s was eliminated in 2013 in DSM-5 and replaced by a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder). Jake started counselling with a psychologist in 2011 due

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Case stories of suicides caused by antidepressants: Toran Bradshaw

Maria Bradshaw’s son Toran who was her only child was prescribed fluoxetine in January 2007 despite having been assessed as being a healthy adolescent who had an expected reaction to a stressful life event, which was a breakup with his girlfriend. A month later, Toran experienced a severe cluster of adverse reactions including suicidal behaviour,

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