By Peter C Gøtzsche Institute for Scientific Freedom Copenhagen   Tuva Andersson was 37 years old when she committed suicide. Her mother wanted me to tell her story hoping it might prevent other tragic and unnecessary deaths. Tuva suffered from anxiety, which should have been handled by psychosocial interventions. Instead, she was exposed to professional […]

By Peter C Gøtzsche The business model of predatory scientific journals constitutes consumer fraud as it deceives many people who buy into something they do not get. I receive about 20 invitations per week to publish in predatory journals and two to present research at predatory conferences. I have published an article about these “invitations,”

John Read tells Denise Winn about his work showing adverse life events explain most types of emotional distress, and how the medical model ignores it in the article “Lack of insight: the story of psychiatry.” This article, and the editorial, “Where’s the madness?” are very insightful. The logic is straightforward, but in psychiatry, things are

26% of adults in England was prescribed a dependence forming drug in the previous year, for example, antidepressants, benzodiazepines, Z-drugs, GABA-ergic and opioids. The government has a moral duty to help those harmed. See our open letter in BMJ: https://www.bmj.com/content/381/bmj.p1417

I explain briefly in this article why our medicines are the third leading cause of death; why we generally cannot trust our drug regulators and other authorities; that vaccines have saved millions of lives and still do, but that those against influenza and COVID-19 are not particularly effective; and what you can do yourself to

Even though tardive dyskinesia – and also akathisia, which it resembles – are serious, horrible and common harms of psychiatric drugs, they are often overlooked or deliberately ignored by psychiatrists. I have just published an article on Mad in America about these conditions, which have links to the videos below. US actor Joey Marino can

By Peter C Gøtzsche Institute for Scientific Freedom This is the conclusion of a detailed investigation published by the Sunday Times on 10 June. I must admit that even though I knew that the virus that has so far caused 7 million deaths was highly likely fabricated in Wuhan (see my book, “The Chinese virus”,

Af Peter C Gøtzsche Lærebøger i psykiatri er utroværdige. Psykiatrien må laves radikalt om. Se min lærebog, Critical Psychiatry Textbook, som man kan hente gratis på min hjemmeside. I hele verden er der et opgør på vej med den traditionelle, såkaldt biologiske psykiatri. Årsagerne er indlysende. Jo mere, man behandler med psykofarmaka, jo værre går

By Peter C Gøtzsche On 9 May, Bruce Arroll et al. argued in a letter to the editor of World Psychiatry, why patients with a depressive condition should not get a prescription for an antidepressant at their first visit to a general practitioner but at a later stage, if at all. I agreed but had

By Peter C Gøtzsche I had expected this to happen but was still a bit surprised when it did happen. This is the email I received today, from Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Emerging Drugs inviting me to publish my preprint article “Review of invitations to publish in predatory scientific journals.” This journal is published