Psychiatrist Tells the Truth About Clinical Trials | Science, Medicine, Psychiatry, Mental Health

9 Responses to Psychiatrist Tells the Truth About Clinical Trials | Science, Medicine, Psychiatry, Mental Health

1. David Sweeney says:

   July 30, 2014 at 2:40 pm

   I completely agree. It is shocking how statistical data is manipulated by
   Big Pharma in clinical trials – especially psychiatric trials. Even in
   basic science, try to get a rebutal of ‘established theory’ published, the
   peer reviewers don’t like negative data, it spoils the published ‘story’ –
   and that’s all it is, a story, the way they would like biology to be, but
   actually it isn’t! Such new data is commonly suppressed, or
   published/hidden away in a much lower Impact Factor journal, which means
   the original hypothesis essentially stands even you you have shown a
   significant exception.
   Don’t get me started on evidence based medicine. Did you know most
   vaccines don’t work on most people. This is readily admitted on the vaccine
   inserts themselves, believe it or not. For example, Flulaval Influenza
   Virus Vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline. This insert says, word for word:
   “There have been no controlled trials adequately demonstrating a decrease
   in influenza disease after vaccination with Flulaval.” (So much for
   “evidence-based medicine.” Talk about a ‘shot’ in the dark!)
   One of the big problems in designing drugs for multifactorial disease is
   the approach taken by rational pharmacology to produce a drug that acts on
   a specific biochemical pathway, whereas the disease is acting on several
   diverse pathways. A good example, an anti-IL4 drug for asthma looked great
   on paper, get it into clinical trials and it doesn’t do anything! Same for
   SSRIs, they are too specific whereas depression isn’t specific- that’s why
   natural compounds (with more than one active ingredient) such as rhodiola
   rosea or St John’s wort are much more effective in treating such
   conditions. At least SNRIs are a step in the right direction. But at the
   end of the day it’s your attitude that counts the drugs can act as a safety
   net but the individual must learn to ‘catch’ the negative thoughts that
   lead them over a cliff into clinical depression and hence allow those
   neural circuit(s) to disperse. Hence we need to switch our view from the
   analytical to the synthetic – dare I say holistic.
2. PsycheTruth says:

   July 30, 2014 at 2:41 pm
3. Daniel Skipp says:

   July 30, 2014 at 2:48 pm

   So true! Psychiatry is a bad joke. The whole basis of many drugs e.g.
   SSRIs, SNRIs etc.(that low serotonin causes depression) is just Pharma BS
   to sell the drugs. The fact that antidepressants and many other drugs have
   little or no demonstrated benefit beyond the placebo effect is a good
   example of the failing of these incestuous corporate-controlled
   “researchers”. Almost all the drugs for many conditions are not shown to
   work by any research even close to reliable… tier 2 quality at best.
   Studies get done to get the money (tenure, grants, Pharma payoffs etc) but
   they are trash, worthless, usually because they have not bothered to
   control the variables and the placebo well enough.
4. valhala56 says:

   July 30, 2014 at 2:52 pm

   Nice to see a real Psychiatrist/Scientist explain the Peer Review process. 
5. adam kova says:

   July 30, 2014 at 3:00 pm

   It depends on the trial is, some of these clinical trials deal with
   “psilocybin” that deals with migraine headaches, depression, PTSD, and
   other problems that people have. The first people from the first trials
   about migraines and the doctors followed up with these people and found
   that these people haven’t a headache in 31/2 years!!! 
6. jmark nottell says:

   July 30, 2014 at 3:09 pm

   do you enjoy your talks with the shrink-
7. Christine Hansen says:

   July 30, 2014 at 3:23 pm

   What money does, how it works.
   You can talk about the problem and never get to the solution, forever!
   How about prevention? How about never having to deal with these diseases
   that have been around for a very long time now, collecting money by the
   billions to “study” …who would not be in business long if they actually
   found a cure. And is this okay? Really? We would straightaway get to the
   solution if we did not have to deal with the incentives and manipulations
   behind money that infect everything, or deal with money, period would be
   even better. It’s got us behaving and living in unnatural ways =
   unnecessary stress and frustration.

   It doesn’t matter what issue you discuss, when you run into money, there is
   the real problem underlying ALL PROBLEMS WE FACE. Money is the reason for
   the problem + it is the reason we can solve none of them. Until we just
   get back to our hearts, give and receive according to common sense, and our
   innate Intelligence, this will go on and on and humanity will suffer
   greatly because of it.
8. Robert Dixon says:

   July 30, 2014 at 3:26 pm

   Is research and development an on going thing with each individual patient
   and the study in real time?
9. oopskerell says:

   July 30, 2014 at 3:37 pm

   Dr ross was on that jesse ventura show a whileback