[lbo-talk] Antidepressants and Placebos

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Feb 28 04:33:30 PST 2008


On Feb 28, 2008, at 6:41 AM, Chris Doss wrote:


> To be honest, I think this is a verson of "smoking
> doesn't cause cancer" and "AIDS isn't the result of
> HIV." I think people just don't want antidepressants
> to work.

This analogy makes no sense. Independent reviews show little or no more efficacy than a placebo, but drug-company-sponsored research shows an effect, sez the article. It was tobacco co's that argued that smoking doesn't cause cancer (at least publicly -- privately they knew better). I think some people just want antidepressants to work.

Doug



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