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  1. In meta-analyses of corporate clinical trials lasting around 4-6 weeks the benefit of antidepressants is “difference of 1.80 on HRSD(1).
    In the HRSD scale answering that you are mentally ill is a 2 point improvement(2). Gaining weight can achieve over 2 points(2).
    Even this clinically meaningless benefit (it is not noticeable outside statistical analysis) is overstated due to around half a dozen design flaws.

    The drug manufactures hid that the drugs increased suicide in the clinical trials. Antidepressants increased suicide and suicide attempts by an OR of 2.83, and 2.38 respectively(3).

    The clinical trials were not testing a drug group verse a placebo group, but rather a drug group verse a group put into abrupt drug withdrawal. 78% of antidepressant trials had a placebo group that was put into “rapid drug withdrawal” this is the standard practice for all psychiatric drug studies(4).

    All psychiatric drug Clinical trial meta-analysis suffer from a publication bias. The drug manufactures do as many trials as they want and only publish the positive ones.
    “Using FDA reviews on 4 newer antidepressants, we identified 30 trials, half with positive, and half with negative, outcomes.” (5)
    “Among the 15 negative trials, 6 were unpublished and 2 others were misreported as positive.”(5)
    The unpublishing and falsification of negative trials was a massive improvement compared to trials done before 2008.

    “Patient ratings revealed no advantage for antidepressants beyond the placebo effect.(6)” This result is ignored and instead similarly to studies for all psychiatric drugs the ratings of the psychiatrist –the person whose income depends on the drugs– is used.

    All psychiatric drug studies suffer from an active placebo bias. Due to side effects of the drugs almost every single patient and psychiatrist can tell who is taking and not taking the drugs.
    In a systemic review it was found that “studies in which an active placebo was used report no significant difference in outcomes of treatment with antidepressants” (7)

    That’s the type of corporate designed, funded and performed science used to approve and prescribe drugs for every man, women and child.

    (1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2253608/
    (2) https://dcf.psychiatry.ufl.edu/files/2011/05/HAMILTON-DEPRESSION.pdf
    (3) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333987755_Newer-Generation_Antidepressants_and_Suicide_Risk_in_Randomized_Controlled_Trials_A_Re-Analysis_of_the_FDA_Database
    (4) https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/04/withdrawal-symptoms-routinely-confound-findings-psychiatric-drug-studies/
    (5) https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003886
    (6) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1401382/
    (7) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331586215_Twenty_years_after_'Listening_to_Prozac_but_hearing_placebo'_Do_we_hear_placebo_even_louder

  2. Failed Scholar

    Some of the shit I read coming from the UK is just…it’s hard to believe it can be true, it’s so retarded. Britain is truly a shining example to the world of exactly how NOT to run a country, a benchmark in deindustrialization and how to drive a society to ruin while turning it into a Gestapo fun house at the same time on behalf of a genocidal foreign country. It takes true talent to make that possible.

    https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-condemn-police-raid-on-westminster-meeting-house

    Just before 7.15pm more than 20 uniformed police, some equipped with tasers, forced their way into Westminster Meeting House. They broke open the front door without warning or ringing the bell first, searching the whole building and arresting six women attending the meeting in a hired room.

    – Imagine arresting Quakers on behalf of a foreign genocidal state! Kier “Stormer” keeping Britain safe (for Israel).

    Our next thought crime concerns parents complaining about their kids schooling: https://freespeechunion.org/police-arrest-parents-who-complained-in-school-whatsapp-group/

    A couple who’d had a little too much to think were detained in front of their nine year-old daughter and kept in a cell for eight hours over “disparaging” messages in a school WhatsApp and follow-up emails raising concerns with school leadership.
    Six uniformed officers from Hertfordshire Police were sent to arrest Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine after their child’s school objected to a series of emails and “disparaging” comments in a parents’ WhatsApp group.
    They had questioned the recruitment process for a new headteacher and were accused of “casting aspersions” on the chair of governors, which the school claimed had become “upsetting” for staff, parents, and governors….After a five-week investigation, police concluded there was insufficient evidence and took no further action – though by then, the knock at the door, the squad cars, and the spectacle of arrest by half a dozen officers would already have done the damage in the eyes of their local community.

    Just think of the amount of police resources wasted on this. You would think British police have better shit to do what with all by now infamous knife attacks and pakistani rape gangs. Well, let’s see how the British court system is doing shall we?

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14536929/Paedophile-migrant-attacked-teenage-girl-allowed-stay-UK.html

    A paedophile who assaulted a teenage girl has been permitted to remain in Britain after a court ruled his deportation would violate his human rights. The Pakistani man was behind bars after being convicted of multiple sex crimes and then, after being released from prison, he attacked the teenager…During the appeal, the convicted offender, who has been granted anonymity for his protection, argued that he could face ‘inhuman or degrading treatment’ if deported to Pakistan because of his alcoholism.

    But wait, there’s more!

    This comes after a spate of similar cases including one in February this year when an unnamed judge let a paedophile who messaged ‘barely pubescent girls’ stay in the UK to protect him from his family’s disapproval of his actions back home.
    The man – granted anonymity for his protection – was caught messaging paedophile hunters, disguised using decoy child profiles, online in August 2022.
    Horrifyingly, the Pakistani father-of-two had believed he was really speaking to ‘barely pubescent girls’.

    He had started grooming young girls long before this in March 2021.
    But an unnamed judge ruled removing him from the UK would be ‘unduly harsh’, a tribunal heard.

    The judge explained the paedophile would have ‘significant difficulties’ in Pakistan because his family there have a ‘dim view’ of his crimes – and stopped the man from being deported.

    You don’t fu***ng say? The British ‘justice’ system sure seems to love their pedos.

    And the NHS? https://freespeechunion.org/nhs-nurse-punished-for-calling-transgender-paedophile-mr/

    An NHS nurse was disciplined after accidentally addressing a transgender paedophile as “Mr”.
    The nurse, Jennifer Melle, 40, was treating the patient—who was from a high-security men’s prison—at St Helier Hospital in Carshalton, Surrey. During an aggressive tirade, the patient called Ms Melle a “n—–” three times.
    But in October 2024, it was Ms Melle who was investigated and formally disciplined by the hospital. She was issued a final written warning and referred to the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

    Amazing.

    Last one because this is comment is already overly long and one could really go all day with articles from MadHouse Britain. https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2025-03-27/2700-jobs-at-risk-at-british-steel-plant

    Up to 2,700 jobs are under threat after British Steel announced plans to close down its blast furnaces in Scunthorpe.
    The company said operating the two blast furnaces was “no longer financially sustainable due to highly challenging market conditions”.

    Keep in mind that this is the last blast furnace, and hence the last steelmaking facility left in Britain, that is set to be closed. The country that kickstarted the industrial revolution, the birthplace of the modern steel industry, will now be incapable of turning iron ore into steel! This is a framed picture of the incredible decline of the UK since the end of WW2.

    It’s amazing to me to see how fast a country can be run into the ground, and also at just how utterly delusional British elites seem to be about their own power or importance. These are the same people sabre-rattling the Russians that they are ready to go toe to toe with them in Ukraine “boots on the ground, planes in the air”, and pointing their blood-soaked fingers at China, wailing about genocide while assisting this century’s holocaust; all by a country that soon won’t be able to make steel and is furiously arresting Quakers.

    Make it make sense.

  3. Make it make sense. –Failed Scholar
    ——–
    Dystopia, and reality TV had a kid.
    Idiocracy, and greed is good had a kid.
    The society we live in is a byproduct of a mating between the two.

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