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 Incidentally, I found out earlier this week that the link had become inactive: “This site has been archived or suspended.”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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Serious misinformation about the benefits and harms of the COVID-19 vaccines

By Peter C Gøtzsche It is very difficult to publish anything about the COVID-19 vaccines that goes against the official narrative, which is that these vaccines are highly effective and safe even though both claims are seriously wrong. Among those that have claimed 100% efficacy of the vaccines are the FDA, Anthony Fauci, the Australian

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Neuroleptics do much more harm than good and should not be used

By Peter C Gøtzsche Professor and Director Institute for Scientific Freedom Copenhagen Denmark e-mail: This is the accepted chapter 4 in Psychological Interventions for Psychosis: Towards a Paradigm Shift, edited by Juan Antonio Díaz-Garrido, Raquel Zúñiga, Horus Lafitte and Eric Morris, published in 2023 by Springer. The book is available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27003-1. Read

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Systematic violations of the patients’ rights when forced to receive neuroleptics

By Peter C Gøtzsche Lawyer James B Gottstein from Anchorage, author of The Zyprexa papers, has written the most damning report I have ever seen about the systematic violations of the patients’ rights when they are forced to receive neuroleptics against their will. What goes on at the Alaska Psychiatric Institute in Anchorage is truly

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Personal accounts of patients driven into suicide by a depression pill

In 2015, when I launched my first psychiatry book, “Deadly psychiatry and organised denial,” I arranged an international symposium in Copenhagen, “Psychiatric drugs do more harm than good.” The lectures are on YouTube. They are still highly relevant and I particularly recommend people to listen to the personal accounts of patients driven into suicide by

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Complaint about Cochrane editors committing editorial misconduct

Open letter to Karla Soares-Weiser Editor-in-Chief, the Cochrane Collaboration Complaint about Cochrane editors committing editorial misconduct Dear Karla, I hereby complain to you about what I consider editorial misconduct in the Cochrane Common Mental Disorders group. Briefly, while this group imposed ever increasing demands to our protocol about safe withdrawal of depression drugs in patients

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