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).
Ironically, the New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority is called Medsafe. Drugs are not safe. They are the major killer, ahead of heart disease and cancer, https://bit.ly/4qW6qji. And yet, NZ, already defamed as the only country in the world, apart from the USA, that allows ads for presciption drugs to the public, now opens the door for even more deaths. https://bit.ly/4rPznhQ.
The Medicines Amendment Act 2025 enables wider prescribing of unapproved medicines; enables advertising of unapproved medicines at medical conferences; and removes a restriction that prevented prescribers from holding a financial interest in a pharmacy.
I am stunned.
President Donald Trump responded to one of the largest single-day protests in American history, where nearly 7 mio Americans said no to his ambitions of becoming the King of America, by posting an AI video showing him dumping poop on protesters, like a mad king, disgracing the office he holds.
See link to video here: https://bit.ly/3MT4JoM, where Trump, adorned with a crown, is flying a fighter jet and dumping diarrhoea on Americans exercising their First Amendment right to peacefully protest. USA Today called him President Poop and asked: Is this shit making America great? Clearly not.
Royal College of Psychiatrists lied about psychiatric diagnoses and drugs on BBC. What its president wants will cause more deaths and more patients on disability pension. See my article: https://bit.ly/46whyvY. Responding to the mental health crisis in the UK where mental health disability has almost trebled in recent decades, and the gap in life expectancy between people with severe mental health issues and the general population has doubled, outgoing president of the Royal College, Lade Smith, said that the pandemic of mental illness is clearly distinguishable from the mental health challenges we all experience and that it requires medical treatment, which effectively prevents the chronicity that leads to people going on benefits.
The truth is the exact opposite of this. We have a pandemic because psychiatry hugely overdiagnoses healthy peopole and give them one or more psychiatric labels and drugs. This is why the World Health Organization and the United Nations have recently called for systematic mental health reform emphasising psychosocial interventions. Psychiatry as a medical discipline should be disbanded.
Europeans are horrified about what Trump’s America has become in just one year. Trump was impeached in 2019 for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, and again in 2021 for his failed coup d’état. The Republicans in the US Senate saved him from conviction but it is time for them to abandon their party loyalties and ensure that Trump gets removed from office as quickly as possible. Trump is very dangerous. I expect the midterm election to end in a bloodbath. Time will tell if I am right. But we already know that the United States is now a fascist kleptocracy. Read my freely available article: https://bit.ly/4qZsnxX.
Illegal marketing of presciption drugs to the public in Canada. Drug policy researcher Alan Cassels explained in a letter in the Globe and Mail on 24 Feb that illegal marketing feels so ubiquitous that regulation has become nothing more than a punchline. If drug advertising laws are broken, the damage is very real in terms of deceived and harmed patients and wasted drug spending. Yet there are no real consequences for breaking the law:
“Typically, the government’s approach has been to work with companies to address non-compliance.” We don’t “address non-compliance” or “work with” alleged bank robbers or murderers, we rightfully put them on trial and, if guilty, put them in jail. We should be doing the same for those who push pharmaceuticals way beyond their intended uses. Our drug regulator is no watchdog, it seems more like a lapdog without any teeth.
My comment: It is not only an issue in Canada that white collar drug lords are not persecuted but praised in official statements about government-industry “partnerships.” The winner takes it all.
Finnish psychiatrist Ben Furman’s fascinating programme, Kids’Skills, teaches kids with difficulties various skills to manage their emotions and behaviour better and make them proud of their achievements. Instead of diagnosing, drugging, and harming them. See YouTube video, subtitles in 20 languages: https://bit.ly/3MHVHLh. And read more about helping children rather than harming their brains, sometimes permanently, with drugs in my freely available book, Is Psychiatry a Crime Against Humanity? https://www.scientificfreedom.dk/books/
A US citizen wrote: This administration is making us crazy. So perhaps MAC is no longer short for a computer but for: Make America Crazy. As you know, in Greenlandic, MAGA means Make America Go Away, and in Denmark, we call the White House the Wild House.
Drug regulators speed approval of promising new drugs but, as expected, they have more post-approval safety concerns than standard approval drugs https://bit.ly/46q3vIf. Regulators don’t care that our drugs are the leading cause of death https://bit.ly/4qW6qji. They should.
Psykiatriens fallit (The ruin of psychiatry). My article in Danish about why biological psychiatry with its focus on drugs as the “solution” to everything has only survived because psychiatric professors have lied monstrously about what it accomplishes. https://bit.ly/3OlNT2i
I have reviewed some of the most popular alternative remedies, chiropractic, acupuncture, homoeopathy, massage, reflexology, healing, and craniosacral therapy. None of them work but the three first-mentioned have killed some people. https://bit.ly/3MLd5i1.
A Dane applying for a visa to Little England, formerly known as Great Britain before Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson, etc, lied outrageously to the public about the wonders to come when they left the EU, https://bit.ly/4akWkmZ, is asked to click yes or no to this question: “Do you seek to engage in (or have you ever engaged in) terrorist activities, espionage, sabotage, genocide, war crimes, or crime against humanity?” It is similar if you want to go to the USA, which few Europeans would want these days where the US sees the despicable semi-fascist Victor Orbán of Hungary as their most important European ally. Funny, isn’t it? I don’t doubt it is about a legal issue if terrorists plan to go to the British Isles. But relax, I just wanted to attend a scientific meeting.
With my articles, interviews and documentaries, I try to accomplish much-needed changes in healthcare and need your help. See https://bit.ly/4kBivZs where I write about the futility of health checks and mammography screening, and about Cochrane’s scientific and moral collapse.
I cannot take comments seriously unless the commentators have listened to the AI conversation. A film critic also needs to see the film first. Someone had seen it and replied: "The AI generated conversation is indeed brilliant. Highly recommended. The story is monumentally important."
You are easlily bedazzled, it seems, dear professor.
Do you even understand what "AI" is?
A correlation machine. Nothing else. Only produces a mirage of "intelligence" from ingesting and copying human brilliance, but regresses towards the mean.
People interested in medical science and why institutions get corrupted should listen to an AI generated conversation (35 min) based on my freely available book, “The decline and fall of the Cochrane empire.” https://bit.ly/4aA2nTs. It is so brilliant that I doubt any human being would be capable of producing anything similar, but Jonathan Engler, a medically and legally qualified healthcare entrepreneur, made AI do it. It is surreal that this is at all possible.
Misconceptions about alternative medicine and medicine. A reader commented on my Substack article “Alternative medicine is no alternative. It doesn’t work and may kill people.” https://bit.ly/4bF8JmW. I responded:
I started my article this way: “There is no commonly accepted definition which might delineate alternative medicine from other treatments, and logically, it does not even seem possible.1,2 Most definitions simply say it is not presently considered part of conventional medicine. This can be translated into: It does not work. Because, if it did, we doctors would be happy to use it and would not call it alternative.”
We need randomised trials to find out if a treatment works. Some doctors believe the trials show that acupuncture works against pain, so they use acupuncture and do not consider it “alternative” but just a treatment they use. I have studied acupuncture and found it does not work (see my next Substack article about alternative medicine, to appear on 23 February). You claim that “modern medicine is also an 'ideology', a very deep and rigid one too.” It is not. Medicine is not an ideology. It is based on science incl. randomised trials. This method is not an ideology. It is a method that ensures that any difference between two groups is a chance difference, which allows us to test the results statistically.
“Why our evidence is trusted” - or maybe not. The Cochrane Collaboration’s self-praise is seriously dishonest. Read my article: https://bit.ly/3MuBIzl. Cochrane claim they have never accepted commercial funding, which is a huge lie, and even today, they allow authors to receive money from the drug company whose product they are reviewing. Moreover, many Cochrane reviews are flawed, particularly those of psychiatric drugs.
An organisation that accepts authors on industry payroll; that considers guild and financial interests more important than getting the science right; and that allows publication of politically expedient but seriously misleading Cochrane reviews and press releases while committing editorial misconduct by preventing high-quality, unbiased reviews from being published, or undermine them publicly without even consulting the authors, which the current CEO did in relation to the Cochrane review of face masks, is doomed.
It's all in my book and in a long series of articles in the BMJ that I quote. My Substack article gives the most pertinent facts. The Wakefield fraud is second to none.
It's all in my book and in a long series of articles in the BMJ that I quote. My Substack article gives the most pertinent facts. The Wakefield fraud is second to none.
One cannot lose credibility by pointing out that the USA has a president who lies virtually every day. It is a sad fact and the whole world watches in horror.
Our upcoming documentary about vaccine controversies is much needed. Vaccine denying circles in the USA depict Andrew Wakefield as a hero even though his research linking the MMR vaccine and autism has been proven fraudulent on multiple counts. Please read my vaccine book, https://bit.ly/3pA2evK, with numerous details about the Wakefield fraud, before you possibly comment on this tweet or on my Substack article: https://bit.ly/3Me19oY. I expect the worst from some of my readers. In a world full of lies, particularly in the USA under its current president, truth has a hard time.
US President Donald Trump has threatened to sue comedian Trevor Noah who said at the Grammy Awards: "Song of the Year - that is a Grammy that every artist wants almost as much as Trump wants Greenland, which makes sense because Epstein's island is gone, he needs a new one to hang out with Bill Clinton." In his usual polite style, Trump called Noah “a total loser.”
https://bit.ly/3Ou86CP.
About a famous birthday card to Epstein that is pretty revealing, the White House said: "President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it." https://bit.ly/4koCCtX. Oh, of course we believe every word that comes out of the Wild House or of Trump’s mouth. The card says: "We have certain things in common, Jeffrey... Happy birthday - and may every day be another wonderful secret."
Alternative medicine is no alternative. It doesn’t work and may kill people. In science, we must be prepared to question everything, also deeply held beliefs, using logic and scientific methods. If we do this, the whole field falls apart: https://bit.ly/4bF8JmW.
Has Trump made the United States a fascist republic? Deeply concerned observers have noticed many similarities. In my article, https://bit.ly/3NRAtuB, I explain why Trump should be impeached and removed from office to avoid chaos, unrest and violence at the midterm elections.
A person horribly harmed by antipsychotics, with severe bruxism, wrote to me: “The pharmaceutical corporations have not invented a pill that cures stupidity.” Strange. The market is billions of people, and it should be possible to show in flawed trials that a pill “works.”