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A double-blind
study is required
when comparing
a drug against a
placebo. That’s
the scientific way.
But, the drug
companies allow
those conducting
the study to break the blind if a
patient is having a bad
reaction and they suspect that the
reaction is caused by the drug.
If the patient is on the drug, he is
switched to the placebo pool. This
removes those bad reactions from
the group taking the drug and adds
them to the group taking the
placebo, making the former look
better and the latter look worse.
Good public relations but not good
science. Good for Eli Lilly but not
for us.
Have you been tested for that
famous chemical imbalance? I
certainly hope not. The only tests
they have for serotonin levels and
that of the other monoamines are
only done postmortem.
Those studies prove that there is no
relationship between the levels of
those chemicals and any mental
illness.
If someone tells you that you have a
chemical imbalance, he is simply
ignorant of the facts and repeating
the marketing mantra of those who
want you to purchase their
chemicals.
Because science did not know the
cause of mental illness, more
prescriptions are written for
antidepressants than any other
class of drugs.
This book changes all of
that. Now we know.
You want to paint your living room.
You can’t decide between beige
and blue.
One way to make up your mind
would be to apply a few strokes of
beige on one wall and a few
strokes of blue on one of the other
walls.
Just stand back and look at the
beige. Try to imagine how the
room would look. Then do the
same for the blue. You now have
tested both colors.
But, suppose that, for some
unfathomable reason, you mix the
two colors together instead and
then you paint a few strokes of the
concoction on one of the walls.
You have not tested either beige
or blue.
Eli Lilly apparently had a good
premonition of what some of the
side effects they could expect
might be when they tested
Prozac. They found a way to
minimize those side effects.
Old Eli required that everyone
taking Prozac also take a second
little pill: benzodiazepine. You
might know it better by another
name: Valium.
By mixing the two, as with mixing
beige and blue, neither the Prozac
nor the Valium was really tested.
This, however, failed to deter Mr.
Lilly. His public relations minions
touted Prozac as the most tested
drug in history. In actual fact, Eli
Lilly never tested Prozac itself.
If their nostrums really worked
there would be no need for such
subterfuge.
A Little Taste
A double-blind
study is required
when comparing
a drug against a
placebo. That’s
the scientific way.
But, the drug
companies allow
those conducting
the study to break the blind if a
patient is having a bad
reaction and they suspect that the
reaction is caused by the drug.
If the patient is on the drug, he is
switched to the placebo pool. This
removes those bad reactions from
the group taking the drug and adds
them to the group taking the
placebo, making the former look
better and the latter look worse.
Good public relations but not good
science. Good for Eli Lilly but not
for us.
Have you been tested for that
famous chemical imbalance? I
certainly hope not. The only tests
they have for serotonin levels and
that of the other monoamines are
only done postmortem.
Those studies prove that there is no
relationship between the levels of
those chemicals and any mental
illness.
If someone tells you that you have a
chemical imbalance, he is simply
ignorant of the facts and repeating
the marketing mantra of those who
want you to purchase their
chemicals.
Because science did not know the
cause of mental illness, more
prescriptions are written for
antidepressants than any other
class of drugs.
This book changes all of
that. Now we know.
You want to paint your living room.
You can’t decide between beige
and blue.
One way to make up your mind
would be to apply a few strokes of
beige on one wall and a few
strokes of blue on one of the other
walls.
Just stand back and look at the
beige. Try to imagine how the
room would look. Then do the
same for the blue. You now have
tested both colors.
But, suppose that, for some
unfathomable reason, you mix the
two colors together instead and
then you paint a few strokes of the
concoction on one of the walls.
You have not tested either beige
or blue.
Eli Lilly apparently had a good
premonition of what some of the
side effects they could expect
might be when they tested
Prozac. They found a way to
minimize those side effects.
Old Eli required that everyone
taking Prozac also take a second
little pill: benzodiazepine. You
might know it better by another
name: Valium.
By mixing the two, as with mixing
beige and blue, neither the Prozac
nor the Valium was really tested.
This, however, failed to deter Mr.
Lilly. His public relations minions
touted Prozac as the most tested
drug in history. In actual fact, Eli
Lilly never tested Prozac itself.
If their nostrums really worked
there would be no need for such
subterfuge.
A Little Taste