Saturday, March 14, 2009

Snidely Whiplash Owns The Library Mortgage

DSM-Conflicts-Of-Interest-2006

The 2006 Cosgrove/Krimsky study of Drug Money Conflicting those who hold a Drug Money Interest in Peddling Incurable Bio-$cience, ...... should disabuse you of Any Fantasies surrounding the Dispassionate Nature of DSM Bio-Billing Objectivity, ...... which remains, in a Fox Mulder sort of way, 'Out There', ...... Way out there.

Altering Brain and Body chemistry produces Disease, Hellish Confusion, Psychotic Meltdowns, and Death.

Why do University Psychiatric programs/researchers Continue to produce Disease, Hellish Confusion, Psychotic Meltdowns, and Death?

The Washington Post has:

When Science Is A Siren Song
..... "Part of the problem is that we've been conditioned to trust university research. It is based, after all, on the presumably lofty motives of its practitioners. What's not to like about science carried out by academics who have nobly dedicated their lives to understanding the unknown, furthering knowledge and serving humanity?

Within academia's ivied walls, the view is a bit different. The university is not a peaceable kingdom, and life is far more Hobbesian. Henry Kissinger was on to something when he observed that "university politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." In contrast to the academia-vs.-industry trope, hubris, self-interest and ambition are not checked at the university door; arguably, they are essential for admission and required for professional success.

University researchers are in a constant battle for recognition and the rewards associated with success: research space, speaking engagements, funding and autonomy. Consequently, while academic research is often described as "curiosity-driven," the reality is messier, as (curiously) many researchers tend to pursue the trendiest technologies and explore topics that happen to be associated with the most generous levels of research support.

Moreover, since academic success is determined almost exclusively by the number and prestige of research publications, the incentives to generate results are exceedingly powerful and can encourage investigators to see patterns that may not exist, to disregard contradictory observations that might be important, to overvalue data that might be preliminary or unreliable, and to embrace conclusions that deserve to be viewed with far greater skepticism. .....

Also see these recent posts:

Alison Bass: who has discovered an Elephant sized Fly in Massachusetts Medical Research & Publication.

Massachusetts Fraud Case Exposes Deep Flaws

And Cl Psych: on Pharma Pimp writing:

Abilify, Depression, And The Memory Hole

The hat tip on the Wash Post piece goes to University Diaries.

2 comments:

AlisonHymes said...

Not sure where to put this but I noticed you don't have Lithium in your list of drug side effects. I lost my kidneys to lithium and know now far too many others who have lost or are losing their kidneys to it also, even after being off of it for years. We were all told kidney effects were "benign", none were warned of the risk of kidney failure. There is still no black box on lithium warning of the risk of kidney failure. Anyway, if you have a chance and time and inclination, information on lithium which unfortunately is still widely prescribed, even in children where it may hinder their bone development for life, would be great.

D Bunker said...

How right you are Alison!

And as time permits we'll have to rectify that oversight, along with Clozapine.

Thanks.