{"id":4534,"date":"2010-12-06T19:28:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T00:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=4534"},"modified":"2010-12-06T19:28:30","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T00:28:30","slug":"the-case-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/06\/the-case-of\/","title":{"rendered":"the case of &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/carlatpsychiatry.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/nemeroff-and-schatzbergs-textbook.html\"><font color=\"#200020\">Nemeroff and Schatzberg&#8217;s &ldquo;Textbook&rdquo; Pushed Paxil<\/font><\/a><br \/>     <font color=\"#200020\">Carlat Psychiatry Blog<\/font><\/strong><br \/>     by Daniel Carlat <br \/>     December 3, 2010<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">To sum up, in 1999,  Nemeroff and Schatzberg published a textbook called &quot;Recognition and  Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders: A Psychopharmacology Handbook for  Primary Care.&quot; It was funded by SmithKline Beecham with a <strong><font color=\"#200020\">$120,000<\/font><\/strong> &quot;unrestricted educational grant.&quot; Documents  posted on the internet hint strongly that the book was ghostwritten by a  PR firm hired by the drug company. And an analysis of the book&#8217;s  content shows that it was crafted to encourage primary care doctors to  prescribe Paxil preferentially over its competitors&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/16203083806436919715\"><font color=\"#200020\">Bernard Carroll<\/font><\/a><\/strong> said&#8230;   <\/div>\n<ul>\n<div> Retraction? Won&#8217;t ever happen. These people do not possess the necessary psychic equipment for a retraction or an apology.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">   Meanwhile,  where does the figure <strong><font color=\"#200020\">$120,000<\/font><\/strong> come from? Was it paid directly to  Nemeroff? How much did the &#8216;authors&#8217; skim from the <strong><font color=\"#200020\">$120,000<\/font><\/strong>? That would  be over and above the $18,000 they collected in royalties. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<div>  <strong><font color=\"#200020\">Anonymous<\/font><\/strong> said&#8230;  <\/div>\n<ul>\n<div>\n<div align=\"justify\"> The $120,000 is the figure for the grant provided by SKB.     <\/div>\n<p>   <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">   To  provide funds for an initial print run of the book [more than likely the  10,000 that SKB picked up, by their own admission] would probably have  run around $50-60K ten years ago.  $18K, from what I understand, went to  Schatzberg and Nemeroff.  The remainder was STI&#8217;s fee for their  services, most likely the writers whose names have been all over the  news, plus any account managers responsible for the project.  Just  needed to clear that up, as some misinterpretations have been flying  around about that figure being related to book sales, etc. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong>$120,000 &#8211; $60,000 &#8211; $18,000 = $42,000<\/strong>. Not bad! Just a follow-up on the money. Admittedly, these figures are being posted on the Carlat Blog as estimates, but they do tell a story. STI, the marketing firm that presumably wrote the book got $42,000. The &quot;authors&quot; [Drs. Nemeroff and Schatzberg] got $18,000. That doesn&#8217;t quite fit with Dr. Nemeroff&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2010\/12\/02\/1953955\/um-prof-accused-\" target=\"_blank\">comment<\/a><\/strong>:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">&quot;Such  editorial assistants can provide help with such tasks as tracking down  references and the like, but certainly do not have the clinical  expertise or experience to put such a volume together.&#8221; Nemeroff called  accusations of ghostwriting &quot;blatantly false and inaccurate.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">Well, apparently <em>editorial assistants<\/em> get paid well for their work. I post this as a way of leading to my lingering thought about this most recent revelation in the ongoing story of Dr. Nemeroff [and Dr. Schatzberg]. This comment immediately above appears to be <strong>blatantly false and inaccurate<\/strong> &#8211; a lie. In all the fuss of claims and counterclaims around such matters, what gets lost is the simplest of things. This statement is a lie &#8211; a consciously false statement. It&#8217;s made in the defense&nbsp; of a charge that the book was ghost-written under the supervision of a Pharmaceutical Company [GlaxoSmithKline]. That is beyond doubt. Dr. Carlat&#8217;s reading of the book suggests that the book &quot;<strong><font color=\"#200020\">shows that it was crafted to encourage primary care doctors to  prescribe Paxil preferentially over its competitors.<\/font><\/strong>&quot; Nemeroff&#8217;s lie is about authorship of a book that tells a lie.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">More than that, in the ten years since that book was published, he stepped down from the editorship of a journal for failing to report Conflicts of Interest. He resigned as chairman of a department of&nbsp; psychiatry for failing to report drug company income. He went to a new university with the promise he was reformed. And here he is lying again, when he has an absolutely perfect way out, &quot;It was in the past. I&#8217;m reborn.&quot;<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Dr. Nemeroff wants to be a famous Psychiatrist. As it&#8217;s playing out, he&#8217;s becoming a famous psychiatric case&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nemeroff and Schatzberg&#8217;s &ldquo;Textbook&rdquo; Pushed Paxil Carlat Psychiatry Blog by Daniel Carlat December 3, 2010 To sum up, in 1999, Nemeroff and Schatzberg published a textbook called &quot;Recognition and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders: A Psychopharmacology Handbook for Primary Care.&quot; It was funded by SmithKline Beecham with a $120,000 &quot;unrestricted educational grant.&quot; Documents posted on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534","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=4534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}