UK: Shrink declared plagiarist

Nice Rolex, Dr. Persaud.

The celebrity psychiatrist Raj Persaud was suspended from practising for three months today for passing off other scholars' work as his own.

The doctor, a regular on the television chat show This Morning and BBC Radio 4's All In The Mind, admitted plagiarism but denied his actions were dishonest and liable to bring his profession into disrepute.

A General Medical Council disciplinary hearing ruled that his "dishonest conduct" had undermined public confidence in the profession.

Story here.


We used to expect better from
the BBC.

Psychiatry is based on flawed theories, half-truths and lies; so in the overall picture of its dishonesty, this hardly matters....
If Persaud stole flawed and fraudulent materials, the charges should be different.

Drugging Children to Keep Them Quiet

Here is a blast from Merzenich on drugs for the "bipolar child".

Are pharmaceutical companies behind Chemtrials?

About 3 minutes into this video, you will see....

Why Doctors Can't Think

Overconfidence.
Arrogance.
Addiction.
Miseducation.
Greed.

How Prozac killed poetry: Leonard Cohen on antidepressants

"It's been 15 years since I stood up on the stage. Fifteen years ago when I was 60 - a young kid with a crazy dream - then I took a lot of Prozac." Then he reeled off the names of other prescription mood-enhancers he had taken over the years.

Did Leonard Cohen lose 15 years to antidepressants?

Jacob's Ladder Redux: Military being used as pharma guinea pigs

Washington Times report is here.

H/T and thanks to Furious Seasons.

The Chemical Dumbing-Down of America