I find it almost impossible to hold what this article talks about in my mind. "Drug company sales representatives, using data these companies supply, can know before entering a doctor’s office if he or she favors their products or those of a competitor." The numbers are overwhelming: Big Data + Big Pharma = Big Money […]
How the Official Psychiatric Guidebook Deals With the Internet Doctors don’t fully understand biology of depression Mind Mysteries: Docs seek to understand depression When I Google David Kupfer under News, I find these three articles near the top, all from December. But I don’t find anything about this: Failure to Report Financial Disclosure Information by […]
Monday, I wrote about the strange story of Richard Noll’s article, When Psychiatry Battled the Devil, in the Psychiatric Times [the unforgotten unremembered…]. In that article, Richard, a psychologist and historian at DeSales University, reminded us of a largely forgotten story. In the period from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s, there was an […]
This summer, we wandered in uncharted territory – Baltimore, Annapolis, the Civil War sites – Antietem, Gettysburg, and Harper’s Ferry. I grew up on the side of Missionary Ridge where many of my friends had cannons, markers, or monuments in their yards for us to climb on. The Chickamauga Battlefield Park and Lookout Mountain added […]
I’m not in love with monotony, but monotony is why my daughter named this blog 1boringoldman. At the time, my monotony was political, but I got converted to the academic·pharmaceutical alliance in psychiatry and the damage done along the way. For a few years, my monotony had to do with my catching up on all […]
Back before Christmas, I read an article by Richard Noll, psychologist and scholar [one of those…], in the Psychiatric Times and flagged it for a later blog. But when I went back, it wasn’t there. How come? How come indeed! The Psychiatric Times unpublished it for reasons that sound pretty flimsy – liability issues they […]
The recent revelations of Dr. Kupfer’s misadventures with conflict of interest [insider trading…, DSM-5 retrospective I… et al] remain limited to an odd blog post here and there. Google News only yields Kupfer’s preChristmas Huff Post article, How the Official Psychiatric Guidebook Deals With the Internet, about the DSM-5’s provisional Internet Gaming Disorder [the operative […]
Evidence Based Medicine [often pronounced evidencebasedmedicine] has evolved into one of my least favorite terms, even beating out chemicalimbalance. The reason it tops the list is that it’s even used by people who are not tricksters like the chemicalimbalance set. They often mean well. They’re saying that you shouldn’t confuse opinion or preference with fact, […]