200th birthday of Anton Bruckner. topos.orf.at/anton-bruckner…

“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you” —Jean-Paul Sartre

1/ Blog concludes with "I’m fairly positive about ketamine and mental health". I was really surprised by this given the evidence the blog itself cites, in addition to some crucial evidence out there the blog misses. So let me go through a few points quickly. 🧵

Ich sag nur: 2019. money quote: "Wenn Sie 2025 kein E-Mobil für unter 20.000 Euro anbieten, dann werden Sie - so fürchte ich - im Markt scheitern."

Thank you for a great collaboration by a multidisciplinary expert team. Regardless of whether one endorses the views or not, organized zerocovid advocacy was extraordinary by its methods and views and warrants scientific scrutiny as a central part of pandemic history. #COVID

Results for repeated doses, after 4 weeks tx / follow up, from a review with COIs thelancet.com/journals/eclin… I am fairly positive that there's a lot of uncertainty about the harm/benefit ratio of longer-term use of (es)ketamine. Big money is in endless treatment, of course.

Putrino Lab Read it: "It’s wrong to try to change minds by distorting the science." Please stop distorting science to scare people. This harms the prospects of finding treatments or a cure for long covid and post-viral syndromes. It doesn't take an epidemiologist to see you're lying. 1/

Ok, most of the MDD sample were on antidepressants. Then there's some relevant COI. But most strikingly, as pointed out by several already, antidepressant treatment was not discussed as confounding variable at all.

I've seen many kids taking several psychiatric meds at a time. The most common reason for prescribing clinicians to be hesitant to prevent polypharmacy was a lack of knowledge and fear that the patient may "get worse." Safe deprescribing is a part of knowledge about prescribing.

“People simply are not helped by advice. If they were, they wouldn’t have to come to a counselor” —Carl Rogers

This is from one of the foremost textbooks of psychotherapy. Isn't this quite questionable? To estimate the effect of psychotherapy for depression vs. pill-placebo, the authors averaged SMDs *only* for psychotherapies with *statistically significant SMDs* vs. pill-placebo?

A very interesting essay: 'I think we’re at the beginning of a renaissance of alternative approaches... The ultimate goal of these movements is to create safe, non-coercive, therapeutic communities that give people space to explore alternative, meaning-making frameworks'

"Between stimulus & response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth & our freedom." -Victor Frankl I learned this & chose a diff path than my Drs who believed they knew me & my life's trajectory. #AskThePatient #ECT

🧵 on our recent The BMJ paper. Despite years of advocacy, data sharing in clinical trials isn’t the norm. But recent US policies could change this trend. #DataSharing #ClinicalTrials bmj.com/content/386/bm…

Today’s the day! Join Mad In America for this online discussion with @samizdathealth of RxISK Why Are #Antidepressants So Difficult to Stop? A New Understanding of #Drug Dysregulation Syndrome and How to Manage It 10am PDT/1pm EDT/6pm BST Register: bit.ly/3XeV0uc

Watching flying circus and I loved this one: dailymotion.com/video/x2nhz1b

Matthew Yglesias alexa blue Tons of people get this wrong, by the way. It’s common even in the biomedical literature to see people describe the change in the placebo group before treatment vs after treatment as “the placebo effect” - but it’s wrong.

Die Mediale Berichterstattung gehört vermutlich zum "Erfolg" des Terrorismus dazu. Beim Thema Suizid gibt es gute Ansätze, Nachahmung zu vermeiden. Wie ist das beim Thema Terrorismus? ocd.lcwu.edu.pk/cfiles/Interna…