Antidepressants Scam, DSM Capitulation
July 21, 2022
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as posted by the channelPsychology is in crisis owing to the pernicious influences of celebrity and money.
Scientists are claiming expertise when and where they have none.
Many are "massaging" the results of experiments (replication crisis).
Making unfounded claims based on flimsy or non-existent evidence
Abusing their authority.
Molecular Biology fundamentalists (Sapolsky BOOK) are grandiose and grossly misleading, I cringe.
Some of the problems: correlation not causation, reductionism and ignorance (empathy not narcissism), contradictory results, not enough known, environmental triggering (nurture, not nature), replicability issues, inflated ill-founded claims.
Examples: antidepressants and DSM.
ANTIDEPRESSANTS
Is Depression Healthy? (2nd Webinar on Depression Management, May 2021)
No link between depression and serotonin, finds major analysis
A review of 17 previous studies finds no evidence for a link between depression and low serotonin levels, which SSRI antidepressants focus on – though not everyone is convinced by the findings
NEW SCIENTIST HEALTH 20 July 2022 By Sarah Wild
The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence
Joanna Moncrieff, Ruth E. Cooper, Tom Stockmann, Simone Amendola, Michael P. Hengartner & Mark A. Horowitz
(Nature) Molecular Psychiatry (2022)
DSM
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