Fraud in SSRI drug trials - The Gathering Storm Part II

Sometimes there is no other way to say it than through humour. We have taken the most vulnerable in society, and we have lied to them. We have lied as a profession. We have allowed our "regulators" to lie and to collude with lying. The best and most intelligent of our profession have remained silent.

This is the classic description of the research method in these trials:
Monty Python: The Gathering Storm - Part II


"Who's gonna investigate the man who investigates the man who investigates me" was the refrain of "The Investigator's Song", words and music by Harold Rome/Zero Mostel in 1947. The song's final line: "One more problem puzzles me; Pardon my strange whim. But who's gonna investigate the man who investigates the man who investigates... him?"
(The People's Song Book, Waldemar Hille, ed., Boni & Gaer, 1948)

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CME Quiz

Mental Floss has a CME quiz.

Try to match 10 popular drugs with their warning labels.

Sample warnings:

1. Babies born to mothers who have taken [this drug] in the latter half of pregnancy have reported complications, including difficulties with breathing, turning blue, floppiness, stiffness, irritability or constant crying.
2. Vision changes, such as seeing a blue tinge to objects or having difficulty telling the difference between the colors blue and green. Also, "An erection that won't go away".
3. Some patients tried to end their own lives. And some people have ended their own lives.

Test yourself here.

Hat tip Boing Boing.

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