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1. Wisdom of the elders

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Uncategorized
  • Post published:28 September 2022
  • Post last modified:30 November 2024

These commentaries are based on Dr Gillman’s peer reviewed scientific papers, see Publications, Book.  Treating the Brain: An Odyssey by Barry Blackwell, MD International Network for the History of Neuropsychopharmacology 2020…

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Stepped trials: Magnifying methodological muddles — the supernatant effect

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Bias in Science
  • Post published:12 June 2019
  • Post last modified:15 February 2026

AbstractStepped trials such as STAR*D suffer from a serious methodological flaw.  In each stage of the trial one is dealing with a different population sample that has a different percentage…

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Risperdal: Forgotten Chicanery

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Anti-Psychotics/Bias in Science/For Review
  • Post published:25 March 2017
  • Post last modified:15 February 2026

This commentary incorporates suggestions for combatting the tidal waves of bad and dishonest science, flooding over us all via the medical journals that we read. Quite a long time ago…

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Tranylcypromine (Parnate): A Brief History and a Enduring Anomaly

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Antidepressants/MAOIs
  • Post published:14 November 2014
  • Post last modified:14 February 2026

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness ... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat itSantayana [1]And Oscar, with his classic nuanced ambiguously interpretable quipsThe…

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