Medicine

Medical Ghostwriting:

When an “Author” Is Not Necessarily an “Author”

Deep Brain Stimulation and Deeply Biased Researchers

By Andrew Scull, PhD

Anatomy of an Opioid Epidemic

There is a quick, simple solution to our opioid overdose epidemic, and it was already used to end a U.S. heroin epidemic 100 years ago. It will become obvious once two major misconceptions are corrected:

The Mystery of Madness Throughout the Ages

Madness can never be truly understood, and madness is something that is still very…

Data Challenges Superiority of Manualized Psychotherapy

The Unsung Psychiatric Impact of Strep Throat

Is your child mentally ill? Maybe not.

Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill

Psychiatry Defends Its Antipsychotics: A Case Study of Institutional Corruption

Randomized Controlled Trials of Psychiatric Drugs Tell of Harm Done

Randomized controlled trials are seen as the gold standard for guiding “evidence based medicine,” and up until recently, I didn’t pay much attention to the “kind” of evidence they provided.