Mad in America

JUNE 10, 2025

Psychiatry, along with the pharmaceutical industry, have been ostensibly busy looking for causes of mental distress but, unfortunately, they are looking in the wrong place. Drug sales plummeted during this period, from 1973 until about 1980. Drugs like Valium had fallen into disrepute for their addictive qualities.

Pharmaceutical 120

Pharmaceutical Promotion Sales Creativity 120

Mad in America

APRIL 24, 2025

The advent of SSRIs in the 1980s and 1990s came with the typical psychiatric sales pitch that these medications protect against adverse outcomes of depression, particularly suicidal behavior, and that they are life-saving. That is not so.

Influencing 125

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Mad in America

JUNE 30, 2025

When the data won’t cooperate, plasticity steps in—vague enough to avoid falsification, flexible enough to fit any outcome. It’s phrenology with a better sales pitch. Because pharmaceutical companies need targets. And psychiatry serves the pharmaceutical industry. A last-ditch explanation. But they sound scientific.

Pharmaceutical 69

Pharmaceutical Controlling Healthcare Computer 69

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

693 This made the journal’s editor, Marcia Angell, publish an accompanying editorial: “Is academic medicine for sale?” I was told I was a dinosaur and too old to be flexible and innovative and go with modern medicine developments. This showed that the whole specialty has been corrupted by industry money.

Consulting 143

Consulting Pharmaceutical Reporting Manufacturing 143

Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

In these interviews, I have talked about the components of the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex, along with how psychiatry meets the political needs of the ruling class and dysfunctional families. Mainstream media is another major player in the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex. Evolutionary geneticist R.C.

Technology 144

Technology Pharmaceutical Reporting Controlling 144

McKensey

JUNE 24, 2025

and, by some accounts, overall US sales remained depressed over the next few years. It is lowest for pharmaceutical products (roughly 0.03), midrange (between 0.3 Where are these non-US markets, will they face intensified sales competition, and how can businesses prepare? but the figure varies widely across sectors.

Supplies 129

Supplies Manufacturing Correspondence Transportation 129

Workplace Wellness

JUNE 5, 2025

Established 2004.

Construction 52

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