Review of invitations to publish in predatory scientific journals

By Peter C Gøtzsche The business model of predatory scientific journals constitutes consumer fraud as it deceives many people who buy into something they do not get. I receive about 20 invitations per week to publish in predatory journals and two to present research at predatory conferences. I have published an article about these “invitations,” […]

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Professor of psychology John Read about what is wrong with psychiatry

John Read tells Denise Winn about his work showing adverse life events explain most types of emotional distress, and how the medical model ignores it in the article “Lack of insight: the story of psychiatry.” This article, and the editorial, “Where’s the madness?” are very insightful. The logic is straightforward, but in psychiatry, things are

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The government has a moral duty to help those harmed by prescribed dependence forming drugs

26% of adults in England was prescribed a dependence forming drug in the previous year, for example, antidepressants, benzodiazepines, Z-drugs, GABA-ergic and opioids. The government has a moral duty to help those harmed. See our open letter in BMJ: https://www.bmj.com/content/381/bmj.p1417

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Sunday Times: The Chinese virus was likely manufactured in Wuhan as part of a secret bioweapons programme

By Peter C Gøtzsche Institute for Scientific Freedom This is the conclusion of a detailed investigation published by the Sunday Times on 10 June. I must admit that even though I knew that the virus that has so far caused 7 million deaths was highly likely fabricated in Wuhan (see my book, “The Chinese virus”,

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Kritisk psykiatrisk lærebog: en ny psykiatri er nødvendig

Af Peter C Gøtzsche Lærebøger i psykiatri er utroværdige. Psykiatrien må laves radikalt om. Se min lærebog, Critical Psychiatry Textbook, som man kan hente gratis på min hjemmeside. I hele verden er der et opgør på vej med den traditionelle, såkaldt biologiske psykiatri. Årsagerne er indlysende. Jo mere, man behandler med psykofarmaka, jo værre går

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Robotic rejections of highly relevant letters to the editor of World Psychiatry about patient safety

By Peter C Gøtzsche On 9 May, Bruce Arroll et al. argued in a letter to the editor of World Psychiatry, why patients with a depressive condition should not get a prescription for an antidepressant at their first visit to a general practitioner but at a later stage, if at all. I agreed but had

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Predatory journal “invites” me to submit my preprint manuscript about invitations to publish in predatory journals

By Peter C Gøtzsche I had expected this to happen but was still a bit surprised when it did happen. This is the email I received today, from Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Emerging Drugs inviting me to publish my preprint article “Review of invitations to publish in predatory scientific journals.” This journal is published

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Cochrane – A sinking ship?

By Peter C Gøtzsche Cochrane – A sinking ship? This article was posted by PhD Maryanne Demasi as a blog on the website of BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine on 16 September 2018 (https://blogs.bmj.com/bmjebmspotlight/2018/09/16/cochrane-a-sinking-ship/). Incidentally, I found out earlier this week that the link had become inactive: “This site has been archived or suspended.” Demasi inquired, and

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