Peter Gotzsche
Psychiatry Racket
"My studies in this area lead me to a very uncomfortable conclusion: Our citizens would be far better off if we removed all the psychotropic drugs from the market, as doctors are unable to handle them. It is inescapable that their availability creates more harm than good." - Peter Gøtzsche, MD; Co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration
[vid] Dr Peter Gøtzsche exposes big pharma as organized crime
[2015 May] Psychiatric drugs kill 500k+ Western adults annually, few positive benefits – leading scientist Psychiatric drugs lead to the deaths of over 500,000 people aged 65 and over annually in the West, a Danish scientist says. He warns the benefits of these drugs are “minimal,” and have been vastly overstated.....“Their benefits would need to be colossal to justify this, but they are minimal,” he writes. “Given their lack of benefit, I estimate we could stop almost all psychotropic drugs without causing harm.”
[2014] Get Real: Peter Gøtzsche Responds Eli Lilly killed 200,000 people with Zyprexa.
Book
Deadly Medicines and
Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Health Care By PETER GØTZSCHE, MD
Quotes
"Our citizens would be far better off if we removed all the psychotropic
drugs from the market, as doctors are unable to handle them. It is inescapable
that their availability creates more harm than good."
"They have bought every type of person including Ministers of health in some countries. There is a huge amount of corruption. In my country for example, Denmark, we are regarded as having very little corruption but yet we have thousands of doctors on industry payroll, although we are just 20,000 doctors, so this is effective kind of corruption. The drug industry buys the Professors first, then chiefs of departments, then chief physicians, and so on. They don't buy junior doctors, so when several thousand are on industry payroll, it's really really bad." [vid] Dr Peter Gøtzsche exposes big pharma as organized crime
'The main reason we take so many drugs is that drug companies don't sell drugs, they sell lies about drugs. This is what makes drugs so different from anything else in life… Virtually everything we know about drugs is what the companies have chosen to tell us and our doctors… the reason patients trust their medicine is that they extrapolate the trust they have in their doctors into the medicines they prescribe. The patients don't realise that, although their doctors may know a lot about diseases and human physiology and psychology, they know very, very little about drugs that hasn't been carefully concocted and dressed up by the drug industry… If you don't think the system is out of control, then please email me and explain why drugs are the third leading cause of death… If such a hugely lethal epidemic had been caused by a new bacterium or a virus, or even one hundredth of it, we would have done everything we could to get it under control.'
[vid] Dr Peter Gøtzsche exposes big
pharma as organized crime
