Posted by Tabitha on July 29, 2016, at 14:43:33
In reply to Lou's response-, posted by Lou Pilder on July 29, 2016, at 8:55:27
> One of the statistics she uses is deaths by psychiatric drugs in the JAMA report. But those were deaths only by overdose, not all deaths from psychiatric drugs. The fallacy here is enormous and can not be allowed to stand as fact.
Lou, my data is from death certificates, which show the cause of death as concluded by the medical experts. Sure, it's possible there may be other causes that don't get captured in death certificates, but that is speculation. The best information we have is the reported cause of death. It's irresponsible to spread fear based on speculation.
> The attempt to discredit one of the world's great researchers on the adverse effects of psychiatric drugs is appalling in that what the poster gives as a conclusion that his research is false, is false data.
Dude. This guy is not one of the world's great researchers. Great researchers present their results to conferences and journals for peer review in their field. They don't go straight to the public in a video that features a fake news anchor interviewing them. That's an infomercial.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWr1GK7w1uE
I could only get through about half of that one. All deaths are tragic, and if those deaths actually happened, I'm very sorry. There aren't even enough details to verify that they're real events.
But again, even if they're real, it's speculation that any medications they were taking at the time were the cause of the events. How many other people committed murders or suicide who weren't on paxil? How many people were on paxil and did not commit any murders or suicides? They are presenting correlation as cause, and trying to emotionally manipulate people who are not scientifically literate and are already inclined to fear paxil.
Interesting presentation though. Take some anonymous stories from another website and translate it into text that dramatically crawls across the screen while emotionally evocative music plays in the background. If I were quite a bit more unscrupulous, I'd make a similar channel and collect the ad revenue.
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