Peter C. Gøtzsche er professor, dr.med., Det Nordiske Cochrane Center, Rigshospitalet. Region Hovedstadens Psykiatri og Psykiatriforeningernes Fællesråd holdt et arrangement om psykofarmaka med denne titel på Rigshospitalet den 27. januar. Mødet skulle give ”en neutral og nøgtern vurdering af medicinen”, og anledningen var, at jeg havde igangsat en debat om psykofarmaka i Politiken for […]
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Af Peter C. Gøtzsche, professor, dr. med., Det Nordiske Cochrane Center Den 22. oktober 2014 blev der afholdt en høring på Christiansborg, ”Omskæring af drenge – hvad med rettighederne? Afdækning af argumenter for og imod omskæring af drenge i Danmark”. Folketingets Tværpolitiske Netværk for Seksuel og Reproduktiv Sundhed og Rettigheder havde indbudt til høringen, i
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The Finnish Psychological Association held a meeting in Helsinki on 1 Sept 2014 titled “Mental health and medicalization.” I spoke at the meeting and four days later, I sent a letter to another speaker, psychiatrist, professor Erkki Isometsä. Professor Isometsä replied on 7 Sept: “I will respond to it in detail within a few days; I
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Prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer.1 Major killers are arthritis drugs and psychiatric drugs, and what is particularly tragic is that many of those who died didn’t need the drugs.1 In many cases, they shouldn’t have been treated, as there wasn’t any legitimate indication for treatment, or
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Please read Suicides and homicides for background Toran Bradshaw Maria Bradshaw’s son Toran, who was her only child, was prescribed fluoxetine in January 2007 despite having been assessed as being a healthy adolescent having an expected reaction to a stressful life event, which was a break up with his girlfriend. A month after commencing the
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Af Peter C. Gøtzsche, professor, dr. med., Det Nordiske Cochrane Center Den 22. oktober 2014 blev der afholdt en høring på Christiansborg, ”Omskæring af drenge – hvad med rettighederne? Afdækning af argumenter for og imod omskæring af drenge i Danmark”. Folketingets Tværpolitiske Netværk for Seksuel og Reproduktiv Sundhed og Rettigheder havde indbudt til høringen, i
Peter C. Gøtzsche, DrMedSci, MD, MSc Professor Peter C. Gøtzsche graduated as a Master of Science in biology and chemistry in 1974 and as a physician 1984. He is a specialist in internal medicine; worked with clinical trials and regulatory affairs in the drug industry 1975-1983, and at hospitals in Copenhagen 1984-95. Co-founded the Cochrane
Scientific freedom is under constant pressure. We therefore opened Institute for Scientific Freedom on 9 March 2019 in Copenhagen in connection with an international symposium. Videos of the presentations at the symposium can be found here. Programme. Crowdfunding. Death of a whistleblower and Cochrane’s moral collapse Read Peter C. Gøtzsche’s book about the Cochrane Collaboration’s