This book review was published by Haakon Rian Mancient Ueland in Norway on LinkedIn. In the mid-50’s, a revolution in psychiatric treatment happened. Psychotropic medication entered the scene with a blast. New drugs that would give those afflicted with psychosis, depression and anxiety a new life. Since then, the pharmaceutical industry has launched an amazing […]
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Gøtzsche, Decline and fall of the Cochrane empire Beskrivelse af filen der skal downloades.
Dear Mark Zuckerberg, We are Fiona Godlee and Kamran Abbasi, editors of The BMJ, one of the world’s oldest and most influential general medical journals. We are writing to raise serious concerns about the “fact checking” being undertaken by third party providers on behalf of Facebook/Meta.
On 1 February 2011, we got access to the clinical study reports and their corresponding protocols of placebo controlled trials of two slimming pills, rimonabant and orlistat, submitted by the manufacturers to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for obtaining marketing approval in the European Union. We applied for access in June 2007, but EMA did
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Some books by Peter C Gøtzsche (see descriptions below, some are freely available) ¿Es la psiquiatría un crimen contra la humanidad? (2024). Disponible de forma gratuita. Mammography screening: The great hoax (2024). Freely available, see below. Is psychiatry a crime against humanity? (2024). Freely available, see below. La psichiatria è un crimine contro l’umanità? (2024). Scaricare
By Maryanne Demasi, Ph.D. August 19, 2019. Science is facing a crisis of democracy. Now more than ever, vitriolic attacks are being leveled at people who debate opposing scientific views. Asking questions that challenge the establishment may be unsettling, but silencing debate and proclaiming that the “science is settled” is not the solution. Belgian physician
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The Advisory Board provides advice and support about the Institute’s strategic direction and day-to-day matters, usually via email. Members: Abel Novoa, President of No Gracias, Spain Alvaro Atallah, Director, the Brazilian Cochrane Centre Carl Heneghan, Director, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford, UK David Hammerstein, Director, Commons Network Dick Bijl, President, International Society of Drug Bulletins
2024 Papers in peer reviewed journals Gøtzsche PC, Demasi M. Interventions to help patients withdraw from depression drugs: A systematic review. Int J Risk Saf Med 2024;35:103-16. Boesen K, Gøtzsche PC, Ioannidis JPA. Requesting conflicts of interest declarations from the European Medicines Agency: 3-year follow-up status. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences 2024;33:e17 1–6. Books Gøtzsche
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