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Controversial Paxil paper still under fire 13 years later<\/a> \t\t<\/div>\n
Some say former U. professor Martin Keller’s paper was ghostwritten and should be retracted <\/div>\n
The Brown Daily Herald<\/font><\/strong> <\/div>\n
By Isobel Heck<\/div>\n
April 2, 2014<\/div>\n

Former University Professor Martin Keller published a 2001 paper on the drug Paxil that has allegedly been ghostwritten by GlaxoSmithKline.<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, Edmund Levin and George Stewart, members of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, sent a letter to the editor of the Academy’s journal, requesting an explanation as to why a controversial study led by former Brown Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Martin Keller has not been retracted.<\/p>\n

The paper — which details the findings of Study 329 and focuses on the effects of the drug Paxil on adolescent depression — has been continually criticized since its publication in 2001.<\/p>\n

While Levin and Stewart have worked to get the paper retracted, Jon Jureidini, a professor at the University of Adelaide in Australia and a member of the nonprofit Healthy Skepticism, has been working with his team to reanalyze the original data and republish the results…<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
"some say" is a bold statement. In the case of Paxil Study 329, "some" means anyone who looks into the study [and is not a listed author]. It has become the symbol of an era when ghostwritten, industry funded studies were the rule for psychiatric drugs, and science and its methods were things to be played with rather than tools for knowledge. <\/div>\n

There are a number of reasons study 329 percolated to the top of the pile as an example of the widespread scientific misbehavior in clinical trial reporting. It was about using medication in children. It is an obviously jury-rigged report on first reading. It was authored by an army of top level child psychiatrists and published in a first line journal. One wonders why the authors, the company [GSK], and the Journal [Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry] hasn’t  simply retracted it and  moved on. Instead, they persist in their denial.<\/p>\n

Were it not for the persistence of people like Dr. Levin, Dr. Stewart, Dr. Juriedini, and the Healthy Skepticism group, it might have just faded away, as I think the authors, the Journal, GSK, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Brown University hoped. But that’s not going to happen. It’s too important to acknowledge, not just to "some," but to "all" the level of corruption that had filtered into academic psychiatry and its literature. It’s important for one simple reason – they are traditionally good things, and tolerating this kind of corruption will destroy them for the future. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Controversial Paxil paper still under fire 13 years later Some say former U. professor Martin Keller’s paper was ghostwritten and should be retracted The Brown Daily Herald By Isobel Heck April 2, 2014 Former University Professor Martin Keller published a 2001 paper on the drug Paxil that has allegedly been ghostwritten by GlaxoSmithKline. Two weeks […]<\/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-45324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45324","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=45324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45327,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45324\/revisions\/45327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}