From NYT Gardiner Harris:
Radio Host Has Drug Co. Ties
You've probably already seen this Goodwin/NPR story at Pharmalot & Furious Seasons, So, ...... Our question is Why, has NPR allowed this Goodwin fellow to escape their notice in the 1st place? And yet again; the answer is plain as the nose on your face.
Wiki:
FUNDING
"According to the 2005 financial statement, NPR makes just over half of its money from the fees and dues it charges member stations to receive programming, although some of this money originated at the CPB itself, in the form of pass-through grants to member stations.[8] About 2% of NPR's funding comes from bidding on government grants and programs, chiefly the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; the remainder comes from member station dues, foundation grants, and corporate underwriting. Typically, NPR member stations raise about one-third of their budget through on-air pledge drives, one-third from corporate underwriting, and one-third from grants from state governments, university grants, and grants from the CPB itself.
If Your TAX DOLLARS are supporting a public media outlet, ...... then Your TAX DOLLARS are responsible for that media outlet's content. Hit the above Wiki link on Corporation For Public Broadcasting, and feel your blood pressure Really rise.
"The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is a private non-profit corporation created by an act of the United States Congress and partially funded by the United States Federal Government to promote public broadcasting. Historically, 15% to 20% of the CPB's annual operating budget has been funded from Federal sources. [1]
Here's Goodwin himself, who took $1.3 Million in Drug Money between 2000-2007.
"“,.... it didn’t occur to me that my doing what every other expert in the field does might be considered a conflict of interest,” Dr. Goodwin said."
So, Freddy, ...... what you're telling us is you're All so busy TAKING THE MONEY, ..... that you don't have Time to even Consider a moral qualm or two, ..... about peddling Junk Science that's putting Children in the grave, ..... while the parents of those kids are Paying your Psychiatric NPR Yap, ..... to LIE about the safety of a whole Class of Killer Chemicals?
Goodwin again:
“But as we’ll be hearing today, modern treatments — mood stabilizers in particular — have been proven both safe and effective in bipolar children.”
Paxil NEAR Study 329
Wiki: Goodwin was Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, from 1981-1988.
"Frederick Goodwin received his M.D. from St. Louis University, and was a psychiatric resident at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Before moving to Georgetown, Dr. Goodwin was director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), from 1981 to 1988. Earlier, he was head of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration. He is known in particular for having been the first to report a controlled study on the antidepressant effects of lithium.
At drgoodwin.com from 2002 he is listed a A Director, rather than The Director.
"A physician-scientist specializing in psychiatry and psychopharmacology, Dr. Goodwin served from 1981 to 1988 as NIMH Scientific Director and Chief of Intramural research."
And again, the eminent Psychiatrist Goodwin himself:
"“As you will hear today, there is no credible scientific evidence linking antidepressants to violence or to suicide.”
SSRI Stories, 2700 + Disasters
Update June 9 '09: it's now at over 3000.
Just so Our Point here doesn't get lost, ....
Freddy/Scientific Council of NARSAD: where 300/60 = 1 in 4.
Correction 12/7/08
"In 2007, nearly 60 million American adults — about one person in four — suffered from a diagnosable mental illness. Children were greatly affected, too, with one in 10 impaired by a mental disorder. "
$1.3 Million. 1 in 4 Adults, incurably "Mentally Ill".
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