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has anyone heard more about #MadInAmerica’s change petition to get the #APA’s American #Journal of #Psychiatry to #retract the STAR*D #fraudulent #misrepresentation of an inflated 67% remission rate, (in fact closer to 35%, and “Only 3% of the 4041 patients who entered the trial had remitted and then stayed well and in the trial to its end.”)?

seems this deserves more visibility in the press. 67% becoming 3% seems like #JohnOliver territory. #prozac #fluoxetine #fraud

https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/10/the-american-journal-of-psychiatrys-answer-to-mia-a-silence-that-speaks-volumes/

the first three paragraphs in a screen capture from the Mad In America article from October 28, 2023 by Robert Whitaker, titled “The American Journal of Psychiatry’s Answer to MIA: A Silence that Speaks Volumes”, showing, “On September 9, Mad in America set up a petition on change.org urging the American Journal of Psychiatry to retract its 2006 article that told of a 67% remission rate in the STAR*D trial. The case for doing so was straightforward: In August, Ed Pigott and colleagues, having obtained patient-level data through the “Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials” initiative, published a paper in BMJ Open that told of how the remission rate in that trial was actually 35%. In their paper, they detailed the various protocol violations that the STAR*D authors had employed to inflate the remission rate to nearly double that number.
In our MIA Report on the STAR*D scandal, we told of how the call to retract the 2006 paper presented American psychiatry with a defining moment:
The American Psychiatric Association, and the international community of psychiatrists, could take a great step forward in regaining public trust if they spoke out about the STAR*D fraud and requested a retraction of the published articles. Doing so would be an action that told of a profession’s commitment, as it moves forward, to uphold research standards, and to provide the public with an honest accounting of the “evidence base” for psychiatric drugs.

BLACK MOVEMENT LEADERS

From Sera Davidow:

My efforts in collaboration with Dana Smith and Chacku Mathai to create a 'Black Movement Leaders' exhibit are now live :)

I wrote about the experience on Mad In America here:

https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/02/black-movement-leaders-lost-found/

Thanks to my co-workers Natan Cohen and Amy for helping to get the website part of the exhibit in order, to Eb Ex and Mical for preparing to take the next steps forward with the oral history phase, to everyone who helped us identify folks to include, and most of all, to everyone who was willing to be a part of the exhibit and share some of their story with us :) Wali Mutazammil Yvonne Z Smith Daryl Mcgraw Earl Miller Jonathan P. Edwards Mitzy Sky Iden Campbell Chyrell Bellamy Teena Brooks Denise Camp Cindi Fisher and others! :)

https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/02/black-movement-leaders-lost-found/

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#BHM #history #BlackHistory

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