Trump’s grandiosity complex endangers the whole world, but even though many of his utterings and actions are mad, he cannot be removed from office for reasons of insanity. Like a mafia boss, he rules via fear and he grabs what he wants, be it countries or women. https://bit.ly/4t1vwi4.
Retweeters have argued that viruses don't exist, that I am a liar, that Jake Scott has shown numerous errors in Aaron Siri’s presentation, and that his team is a bunch of tinfoil hats. Why do some people want to make fools of themselves? Jake Scott misleads people, see my two articles https://bit.ly/45l6Yar and https://bit.ly/4bnJm8v. And please think before sending. If you are rude to me or others, I will block you.
Federal judge blocks Kennedy’s vaccine reforms. The verdict is a disaster but it will be appealed https://bit.ly/4rNe8N9. As usual, the coverage in the media is misleading. This is the best vaccine book I have ever read:
Hvem skal vi stemme på til folketingsvalget? Jeg synes, at miljøet er langt det vigtigste ved dette valg. Vi har døde fjorde, men Magnus Heunicke han snakker bare og gør intet ved det, så man kan ikke stemme på Socialdemokratiet. Vores landbrug har ødelagt miljøet, frem for alt pga. af den ekstremt store og uetiske svineproduktion, så det udelukker også en række partier, fx Venstre.
Og så har vi alt det utålelige valgflæsk. Moderaterne vil indføre sundhedstjek, selvom min forskning har vist, at det ikke gavner og faktisk er skadeligt. Liberal Alliance går ind for fri huslejefastsættelse for lejeboliger, hvilker ville være en katastrofe. De vil også skaffe fri adgang til kræftmedicin, hvilket er totalt uansvarligt, da det meste overhovedet ikke hjælper, men er hundedyrt, og de har en formand, der har taget kokain, mens han var formand.
Jeg kan kun se tre partier, det er værd at stemme på, fordi de alle går ind for at begrænse svineavlen meget væsentligt: Det Radikale Venstre, Alternativet og Enhedslisten.
Trump was sour he did not get the Nobel Peace Prize, which he indecently asked for before the committee decided to avoid him. In his first year in office, he bombed 7 countries: Iran, Venezuela, Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq. No US president ever did that before.
Dear Christian, I did not see your tweet as a joke because what you wrote is what leading psychiatrists want us to believe. They are so utterly dishonest!
you are so horribly wrong that words fail me. You need to study the science please and not just regurgitate pharma propaganda. There is no biological cause of postpartum depression and there is no chemical cure. Rubbish!
Article in a leading psychiatry journal, JAMA Psychiatry, stinks of corruption. https://bit.ly/4bFhDPI. Why pay $2,000 a month for a new antipsychotic, which is almost double as much as the federal minimum wage in the United States when such drugs cannot cure anyone but kill?
Adverse drug events are a major killer but the US has no national strategy. American Society of Pharmacovigilance convenes national leaders for Medication Safety Policy Roundtable in Washington, D.C. on March 24. See press release: https://bit.ly/4cT8jdd. Members of the public may register to watch the livestream at: https://thirdcause.eventbrite.com
There is no serious danger of leaving depression in pregnant women untreated with antidepressants. Absolutely none. The clinical effect is far below what is clinically relevant and the drugs double suicides and have many other serious harms. It is naive to think that clinicians can weigh benefits and harms. If they did, no one would use antidepressants.
Helping the US in the Strait of Hormuz is like 'buying tickets for the Titanic after it hits the iceberg.' Quote from the French general Michel Yakovleff. https://bit.ly/4bjpZvS
SSRIs should not be used at all during pregnancy. See the comment by Annika Jansson (I know her true identity) to the petition for better FDA warnings: https://bit.ly/3Pp5Flv. Psychiatrist David Healy and I found that fluoxetine reduced height by 1.0 cm and weight by 1.1 kg over just 19 weeks when given to children. https://bit.ly/3fO7VkY. We concluded that fluoxetine in children and adolescents is unsafe and ineffective. I would expect SSRIs during pregnancy to be even more unsafe.
Europe says no to helping the US, because Trump has no plan for his war against Iran. Read a Danish news release about why the European respect for Trump’s USA is gone, even in the UK, traditionally USA’s closest ally in Europe. https://bit.ly/4bvY7VE.
Very important: SSRIs should not be used at all during pregnancy. But for a start, here is a petition for better FDA warnings: https://downloads.regulations.gov/FDA-2025-P-3956-0001/attachment_1.pdf. Open for comments until 23 March, which can be anonymous. Could be professional, or personal stories from mothers who experienced complications. See also the recent FDA panel meeting on SSRIs in pregnancy: https://bit.ly/3PmkJQT.
The bottom of scientific trustworthiness. Paediatrics & Child Health, the journal of the Canadian Paediatric Society has published 138 fake case reports with learning points for 25 years without stating anywhere that the cases are fictional. https://bit.ly/4bethC7. Unbelievable.
Why you should not get screened for prostate cancer. https://bit.ly/4lyHSeX. Screening does not prolong life and the harms of treatment of harmless, overdiagnosed cancers are immense. The American Cancer Society misleads the public and enrich themselves.
I was interviewed by Patrick Bet-David for one of the biggest podcast channels in the USA in September where I talked about organised crime in Big Pharma, with bribery, corruption, illegal marketing, obstruction of justice, and research and marketing fraud. https://bit.ly/4lwvHPH. We discussed why our prescription drugs are the leading cause of death, antidepressants, ADHD, mammography screening, and how Merck covered up for serious harms of their arthritis drug, Vioxx, and their HPV vaccines. Patrick was highly professional and his staff found relevant documentation he presented while we were speaking, underlining that what I had just said was correct.
Trump is a climate change denier and forced the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to rescind its endangerment finding. https://bit.ly/471aesi. The award for the best kiss of Trump’s ass (see the satire: https://bit.ly/4bbHQ9o) should go to EPA Administrator, Lee Zeldin, who praised what he called a new Golden Age of economic growth, saying: “I am proud to deliver the single largest deregulatory action in US history on behalf of American taxpayers and consumers.” If it could have any effect, I would deny that Trump ever existed.
In Holland, doctors have killed over 100,000 patients, calling it euthanasia. https://bit.ly/4uxndfg. A psychiatrist argued that psychiatric euthanasia reduces the risk of suicide. So, if we killed all people, there would be no suicides, right? I find it horrible that doctors kill, whether without consent by forced treatment with antipsychotics, or with consent.
R to @PGtzsche1: If your claim was correct, our drugs would not be the leading cause of death. As you are a doctor, you should know better. Please, for the benefit of your patients, study the evidence
Over-diagnosis and over-treatment are preferable to under-diagnosis and under-treatment, which are with us now, on account of significant rationing, as reflected by delays throughout the NHS.
Diagnosis and treatment sum up healthcare, with too much better than too little, IMHO.
The Mass Psychiatric Drugging of America's Poorest Children. https://bit.ly/4rsYzdj. This article is heart-breaking. In Oregon, more than one in three children on Medicaid received a psychiatric drug in a single year. And the top drug class is antipsychotics. The drugging of 0–5-year-olds in the US is also other-wordly. Aldous Huxley was far ahead of his time with “Brave New World.” Give them all a soma pill so we won’t hear their cries for help in poor, broken families.
Fit for the future is the title of a catastrophical 10-year plan for the National Health Service in England, which is already a catastrophe, with record-high waiting lists, severe staffing shortages, and crumbling infrastructure. The report is written in an alienating bureaucratic and technocratic language. https://bit.ly/4brv8lV. The word counts are instructive: “digital” (122), “AI” (107), “genomics” (51), and “genome” (17) versus “poverty” (9), “suffer/ing” (7), “continuity” (4), “violence” (2), “solidarity” (2), “comfort” (1), and “kindness” (0). The conquering rhetoric of risk and prevention far outweighs any exploration of the language of illness and disease, of fear and hope, that is the reality of the consulting room.
The climax of stupidity is the proposal of subjecting all newborns in England to genetic sequencing. Population genetic screening with its many false positives, false negatives, and unpredictable clinical consequences of mutations can generate a lifetime of anxiety for parents and their children. We run the risk of turning future generations into patients from the moment they are born, with immense overdiagnosis and overtreatment. While politicians cannot alter our genetic code they can tackle income inequality. But it is not a political priority to lessen it. In fact, inequality in the UK has increased significantly since the 1980s.
Psychiatric diagnoses are not monsters that can attack people, but the reification of mental health issues is harmful. https://bit.ly/3N2Kc1c. It is circular reasoning (tautology); it provides people with pseudoexplanations; and it gives the power to the psychiatrists to define who you are while ignoring the real issues, which could in some cases have cured you by focussing on the root causes for your issues. Instead, arbitrary and unscientific diagnoses lead to huge overtreatment with harmful drugs.
Allen Frances, chairman for the DSM-IV task force, which updated the psychiatric diagnosis manual used in the USA, has argued that the responsibility for defining psychiatric conditions needs to be taken away from the American Psychiatric Association because new diagnoses are as dangerous as new drugs.
We should scrap the whole psychiatric diagnosis system and focus instead on the issues patients have and try to help them the best we can without labelling and drugging them. We should also stop tautological thinking, as it is harmful nonsense.
Psychiatric patient won a forced treatment case against the Norwegian State. This is unprecedented and therefore very significant. https://bit.ly/4sEMG4G. It is very difficult to win lawsuits about psychiatry, even when gross malpractice is involved and the psychiatrists have violated basic human rights, national laws and international conventions about forced treatment.
The legal protection psychiatric patients have can best be described as a sham. As usual, the key psychiatrist for the State lied in court, and the judge at the lower court was unprofessional and ruled against the law. I also document that Norwegian psychiatry is at a catastrophically low level and that key opinion leaders disinform society about their specialty.
Beware of Artificial Interlligence. When I wrote “clorpromazine the first neuroleptic” on Google, this was what I got: “Chlorpromazine, introduced in 1952 as the first, truly effective antipsychotic (neuroleptic) drug, revolutionized psychiatry by allowing for the management of schizophrenia, hallucinations, and agitation, often eliminating the need for long-term institutionalization.”
It could hardly be more misleading. The effect of these drugs is so small that it is way below the least clinically relevant effect; they did not revolutionise anything as the effect is totally unspecific, which is why they were called major tranquillisers 70 years ago when psychiatrists were more honest than today; asylums were emptied because they were expensive to run, it had nothing to do with the effect of neuroleptics; and the drugs make it more difficult to function, not less difficult. What AI did was to dutifully regurgitate the psychiatric industry-inspired folklore, which is totally and utterly wrong, and very harmful, too.
Australian psychiatrist Neill McLaren has read the background papers for the upcoming DSM 6, the American Psychiatric Association’s heavy disease manual. http://bit.ly/4s5ru8i. As usual, a lot of pompous statements with no substance. Neill concludes: “What utter rubbish. Nothing has changed.” It is all about what might be found in future, but surely, won’t be found. The APA claim that “In the 45 years since the publication of DSM-III, knowledge about psychiatric disorders, the psychosocial and cultural impact on them, their treatment, and their biology has evolved tremendously.” This is a huge lie. Above all, biological psychiatry has led to absolutely nothing, apart from harming the patients tremendously.
Don’t trust intelligence tests. https://bit.ly/4b9HFu5. When tried in women 100 years ago, they scored better than men, so some questions were replaced to arrive at two similar Gaussian curves. Kenyan children did better than white people for a maze test. A European child tended to enter a blind alley and explore it to the end, and then start again, making many errors. The typical African child would study the maze for many minutes without making a move and then trace his path to the centre without hesitation or error. The test was abandoned because even the most difficult mazes were solved in this way by too many Africans.
US troops were in Afghanistan for 20 years, in Vietnam for 8, in Iraq for 8. Putin thought he could take Ukraine in a matter of weeks; the war has now lasted 4 years. Why does Trump not learn anything from history? For how many years will how many people die in the Iran war?
FDA is so totally corrupt and so totally steered by Big Pharma’s useful idiots among politicians, the media and patient organisations that it will never come to work for patients. When FDA finally employed the right person, Vinay Prasad, they fired him twice: https://bit.ly/4sw37Aj.
Associated Press (AP) misrepresents seriously FDA’s reservations about using antidepressants in pregnancy and refuses to correct their errors. https://bit.ly/4cDYL5G. As I explained, we cannot trust US legacy media; they are Big Pharmas’s useful idiots. https://bit.ly/4rfCjTY.
R to @PGtzsche1: Some people disagree with my view on Trump's attack on Iran. Of course. There is always disagreement. But in six month's time, we will know which side was more correct than the other. Wait and see.
Trump attacked Iran single-handedly. No Congress approval and no one in his entourage dares go against him. It will be a disaster. Think of Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq. I fear that tens or hundreds of thousands will die and yet, we will not see a good regime. When I wrote my article calling for Congress to remove Trump from office as quickly as possible because he is very dangerous, https://bit.ly/4qZsnxX, I did not know he would attack Iran. The theocracy is one of the most evil regimes on the planet but that does not make Trump’s decision wise.
Ozempic, far from being the miracle anti-obesity drug it has been touted to be, https://bit.ly/4rv4oXK, and it is also extremely expensive.
Praying for others to cure diseases? Cochrane review of intercessory prayer is a pillar of shame. https://bit.ly/4cALJ98. The Cochrane review displays circular evidence; uses an unsound mixture of theological and scientific arguments; assumes that prayer can wake the dead; and ignores that a randomised trial was made up in jest to show how absurd it all is. It is total nonsense. I have asked Cochrane to withdraw the review but they won’t. It is published in the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group, which makes sense, as it is full of delusional thinking.
Read my article: The Three Big Lies about Mammography Screening. https://bit.ly/3NqSFeB. In invitations to screening, women have been told, for over 40 years, by professional associations, screening advocates, screening researchers, cancer charities, and national boards of health, that by detecting cancers early, screening saves lives and leads to less invasive surgery.
Cancers are not detected early; the average woman has harboured the cancer for 21 years before it can be detected on a mammogram; screening has no effect on mortality; it leads to more surgery; and more women lose a breast. Moreover, between a quarter and half of women who go to screening will experience at least one false positive, which can cause distress for several years.
Screening is harmful and should be stopped. I dedicate my article to all women invited to mammography screening and those who love them.
US psychiatrist Daniel Morehead disinforms his readers totally about psychiatric drug harms. Most horribly, he argues that antidepressants reduce suicides in young people but the study he quotes shows the opposite! https://bit.ly/4szyyKj. Some psychiatrists should be in jail.
Trump and Epstein: Dozens of FBI witness interviews appear to be missing in the files released by the Dept of Justice, including three interviews related to a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her via Epstein when she was approximately 13 years old. https://bit.ly/46NxCcO
People leave Trump’s sinking ship: 20% of Americans would move permanently to another country if they could, compared to 13% in 2019 when Trump was also president and 7% in 2014 when he wasn’t. It is estimated that about 150,000 more people will move out of the USA than in. This is the first time since the Great Depression that there has been net migration. It is especially middle-class Americans and students that leave and they predominantly go to Europe. https://bit.ly/3N6NwYU. US ads for American citizenship have become a tragic joke.
A US opinion poll shows very strong support (80–88%) for adult medical autonomy, the right to refuse treatment/vaccines as adults, freedom of medical speech for doctors, and protection from employment discrimination based on medical choices. https://bit.ly/4u4PDgx. What the public wants is in sharp contrast to what they got during Covid and to what the US legacy media still tell their readers about, which is highly misleading (see my article about this: https://bit.ly/4rfCjTY).