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Doctors Are Not Trained to Think Critically

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Medical research is largely funded by the pharmaceutical industry, papers ghostwritten by the pharmaceutical industry and influencers paid by the pharmaceutical industry. We live in a culture which is heavily influenced by social media and the advertising industry.

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

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Doctors adamantly insist they are not influenced by adverts. Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. They police advertisements claims but policing the medical literature is not their job. It’s not just the docs, non-medical prescribers are affected, and lots of us are also under the influence.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 15: Withdrawal of Psychiatric Drugs

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135 One should never start psychiatric drug treatment without having a tapering plan, but no one taught doctors how to stop the drugs, whereas they have learned from their professors and the pharmaceutical industry when to start them and always to blame the disease for untoward symptoms, ignoring the troubles they have caused.

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Branding Diseases—How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions: An Interview with Ray Moynihan

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For the pharmaceutical industry, the bigger and wider those diseases, the more people who can be diagnosed, and the bigger your markets are. The marketing of medical conditions has become a key plank of pharmaceutical industry marketing. Helping widen the definitions of disease is a key part of marketing those pharmaceutical products.

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

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With the explosion of more and more drugs in cabinets across the country, more and more children are dying—but still, pharmaceutical companies push their products, leading to yet more drugs and yet more deaths. Unlike the pharmaceutical industry, in our village community the pain of losing a single child was felt by all.

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You Have the Legal Right to Informed Consent

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2024 Around-America Tour For almost two decades, my “True Crime” story has, sadly, been my unique contribution to challenging the powerful influence that the pharmaceutical industry has on the global healthcare system.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

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H ow can psychiatry maintain its authority and influence despite its repeated scientific failures and lack of progress—now even acknowledged by key members of the psychiatric establishment and the mainstream media? How can psychiatry retain its authority and influence despite its scientific failures? By 2019, Big Pharma’s $6.6