{"id":44454,"date":"2014-03-01T23:27:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T04:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=44454"},"modified":"2014-03-01T23:27:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T04:27:57","slug":"credibility-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/01\/credibility-2\/","title":{"rendered":"credibility…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Well, next weekend, the American Psychiatric Association Board of Trustees<\/font><\/strong> meets in Arlington, VA. This will be their first meeting since APA Speaker<\/font><\/strong> Dr. Mindy Young’s letter<\/a> to the Trustees was published about what has been called the Kupfer Affair<\/em> [or for that matter, since my Open Letter to the Board of Trustees<\/a>]. I doubt you need any reminders about what the Kupfer<\/em> Affair<\/em> is all about. But if you do need a  refresher, you’ve come to the right place:<\/p>\n\n\n
11\/09\/2012    really?…<\/a>
08\/12\/2013    a road to nowhere…<\/a>
11\/21\/2013    careful watching…<\/a>
12\/29\/2013    insider trading…<\/a>
01\/03\/2014    DSM-5 retrospective I…<\/a>
01\/03\/2014    DSM-5 retrospective II…<\/a>
01\/03\/2014    DSM-5 retrospective III…<\/a>
01\/06\/2014    royalty? …<\/a>
01\/11\/2014    top down problem…<\/a>
<\/span> <\/td>\n		 01\/16\/2014    why?…<\/a>
01\/18\/2014    when?…<\/a>
01\/19\/2014    what!…<\/a>
01\/21\/2014    open letter to the APA…<\/a>
01\/23\/2014    not<\/strike> a problem…<\/a>
01\/27\/2014    no longer a given…<\/a>
01\/30\/2014    the future remains in the haze…<\/a>
02\/06\/2014    that matters…<\/a>
02\/11\/2014    its proper place…<\/a>
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Dr. Young’s letter<\/a> concludes…<\/div>\n
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Dr. Kupfer should have disclosed to APA his interest in PAI in 2012. Dr. Kupfer’s interest in PAI, which came after the decision had been made to include dimensional measures in DSM-5, did not influence DSM-5’s inclusion of dimensional measures for further study in Section 3. Interest in inclusion of these measures in DSM-5 began with conferences starting in 2003. If and when PAI develops a commercial product with CAT, it will not have any greater advantage than the dozens of dimensional measures currently being marketed by others.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
… which is bizarre after the first sentence, twisting the issues beyond recognition. If the APA Board simply accepts the letter and does nothing, if that’s the end of that, it confirms the worst case criticisms of the American Psychiatric Association – that it’s little more than the good old boy network<\/em> many think it is, unable to act appropriately particularly when it comes to the issue of Conflicts of Interest. While Dr. Young’s conclusion that there’s no competitive edge resulting from Dr. Kupfer’s interest in this commercial enterprise is patently absurd, that’s hardly the front-running problem. The fact that he kept his involvement in this project secret all the while reassuring us repeatedly of the strength of the DSM-5’s COI policy is an egregious and conscious breach of any version of the stated DSM-5 ethical declarations that he championed. The Board’s only real choice is to take definitive action. Anything else negates the credibility of the APA and its Board…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, next weekend, the American Psychiatric Association Board of Trustees meets in Arlington, VA. This will be their first meeting since APA Speaker Dr. Mindy Young’s letter to the Trustees was published about what has been called the Kupfer Affair [or for that matter, since my Open Letter to the Board of Trustees]. I doubt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44454"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44461,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44454\/revisions\/44461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}