An article today in the New York Times simply blows my mind. I'll just quote from it: "Few universities make required reports to the government about the financial conflicts of their researchers, and even when such conflicts are reported, university...
Posted in Furious Seasons on November 19, 2009 12:05 PM
I got to thinking over the weekend that the well-known conflicts of interest and dubious science of Charles Nemeroff--late of Emory University, soon of the University of Miami--deserve their own adjective, one that could be used to describe others in...
Posted in Furious Seasons on November 9, 2009 12:01 AM
A big piece in the Miami Herald today on the University of Miami's hiring of controversial psychiatrist Charles Nemeroff to head its psychiatry department. Here's some of the fun stuff. "The former head of psychiatry at Duke University told The...
Posted in Furious Seasons on November 6, 2009 01:25 PM
News is just out that, as expected, the controversial former Emory University psychiatry department chair Charles Nemeroff has been named chair of the psychiatry department at the University of Miami School of Medicine. Nemeroff is infamous for epic conflict of...
Posted in Furious Seasons on November 5, 2009 11:22 AM
It's official: controversial psychiatrist Charles Nemeroff is leaving Emory University, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Rumors have been swirling for weeks that he's accepted a post at the University of Miami. Nemeroff is expected to announce his plans later...
Posted in Furious Seasons on November 2, 2009 11:34 AM
Most of you are aware of a long-running campaign by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) to ferret out undisclosed pharma company funding of academic researchers who also wind up taking federal research money. Well, it ain't the Senator who does all...
Posted in Furious Seasons on September 21, 2009 12:03 AM
Last week, PsychCentral.com's John Grohol handed out some journalism awards for writing on mental health issues online, driven by recent media awards from Mental Health America which completely ignored the online world. Freelancers Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer won for...
Posted in Furious Seasons on June 25, 2009 12:05 AM
Yes, it's happened yet again, as the Wall Street Journal's Health blog reported yesterday, Sen. Charles Grassley has uncovered yet another psych researcher who was getting oodles of money from pharma companies while also doing federally-funded research, this time on...
Posted in Furious Seasons on June 11, 2009 12:01 AM
There's been a lot of criticism of ex-Abilify spokespatient/"Electroboy" author Andy Behrman in the wake of last week's front page Wall Street Journal article about his split with Bristol-Myers Squibb. The company had paid him a reported $400,000 to speak...
Posted in Furious Seasons on May 19, 2009 12:01 AM
I'm sure some of you will get a chuckle out of this: in November, the International Forum on Mood and Anxiety Disorders (website) will hold its annual conference, this year in Monaco, and one of the conference topics will be...
Posted in Furious Seasons on April 17, 2009 12:01 AM
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that officials with the HHS inspector general's office are looking into questions of whether Emory University misled NIH about the work and consulting contracts of Charles Nemeroff, a professor of psychiatry there and recently...
Posted in Furious Seasons on February 26, 2009 12:03 AM
On Dec. 31 news came out that Joseph Biederman, the controversial Harvard child psychiatrist, had agreed to forego any industry funding of his work while various conflict of interest allegations against him are being investigated by officials at Massachusetts General...
Posted in Furious Seasons on January 5, 2009 12:03 AM
Amidst the many bizarre revelations around the conflict of interest scandal around academic psychiatric researchers and Big Pharma being probed by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) comes the oddest revelation of them all. In 2000, Emory University psychiatrist Charles Nemeroff wrote...
Posted in Furious Seasons on December 18, 2008 11:45 AM
Ironically, two separate op-eds by two different children's doctors appeared yesterday. Each made similar and different points. First up was Leonard Sax, a psychologist and physician and author of Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving The Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated...
Posted in Furious Seasons on December 15, 2008 12:03 AM
Danny Carlat, a Tufts University psychiatrist, writes of the conflict of interest scandals around Harvard child psychiatrist Joseph Biederman and leading bipolar disorder researcher Fred Goodwin today. Of particular interest to me was Carlat's account of Goodwin's response to a...
Posted in Furious Seasons on December 1, 2008 10:23 AM
Paul Rubin, an economist at Emory University, had a very weird op-ed published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution the other day. In it, he decried attacks upon psych researchers and their conflicts of interest wherein the docs take money from...
Posted in Furious Seasons on October 30, 2008 08:28 AM
There was a fascinating short profile of Charles Nemeroff, the embattled Emory University psychiatrist in the Atlanta Journal Constitution over the weekend. Nemeroff is in all kinds of hot water due to his allegedly nasty habit of taking millions from...
Posted in Furious Seasons on October 14, 2008 12:05 AM
A large number of you have passed along Judith Warner's latest "Domestic Disturbances" column from today's Times. Thanks. In it, Warner, who is generally a pharma defender and author of a forthcoming book on children's mental health (which I simply...
Posted in Furious Seasons on October 10, 2008 11:51 AM
A few of you have probably already caught the news elsewhere: yesterday, Charles Nemeroff resigned as chair of the psychiatry department at Emory University. The move came on the heels of revelations that he'd taken in $2.8 million in pharma...
Posted in Furious Seasons on October 4, 2008 01:45 PM
You just had to know that Sen. Charles Grassley's (R-Iowa) inquiries into psych researchers taking federal research money on one hand and pharma money on the other and not honestly reporting the conflict would eventually reach Charles Nemeroff, a professor...
Posted in Furious Seasons on October 3, 2008 11:52 AM
There's been a lot of advance press for this evening's PBS special, "Depression: Out Of The Shadows." NAMI, which is a sponsor of the show, has done a very good job of seeding the media with information about the show,...
Posted in Furious Seasons on May 21, 2008 12:47 AM
Things have been getting heated in the comment threads again of late, and especially in my inbox. Yep, the anti-psychiatry camp is onto me again, especially folks from Australia and the UK, saying some of the vilest, nastiest crap. The...
Posted in Furious Seasons on April 30, 2008 12:05 AM
Ah, what Gilbert and Sullivan hath wrought. Special appearance by Charles Nemeroff. Thanks to The Last Psychiatrist....
Posted in Furious Seasons on November 21, 2007 11:00 AM
I almost couldn't believe my eyes: Charles Nemeroff, a professor of psychiatry at Emory University, had this to say the other day in connection with a visit by the Dalai Lama to campus to talk about meditation and depression (article...
Posted in Furious Seasons on October 22, 2007 12:03 AM
I've been remiss on doing roundups the last week or so. Here are just a few things I've found interesting in the last few days: CL Psych notes that Decision Resources was for Zyprexa as the gold standard in treating...
Posted in Furious Seasons on September 18, 2007 10:41 AM
The whole world is apparently watching the news around the massive increases in diagnoses of bipolar disorder in kids, teens, and adults. My earlier post on this is here. Hundreds of references from the mainstream media and news sites such...
Posted in Furious Seasons on September 4, 2007 12:17 PM