Posted by chumbawumba on May 11, 2009, at 19:10:06
In reply to Re: Antidepressants Hardly Help ( Time Magazine), posted by Larry Hoover on May 11, 2009, at 8:12:22
> I'm sorry, but that Kirsch et al study is complete garbage. I offered a detailed critique of it here: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20080221/msgs/815551.html
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> There were other significant criticisms that ended up in other posts, but this was my main set of issues with it.
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> I really wish this man would go away. He gives a bad name to cherry-pickers. (Cherry-picking is the act of mining statistics for the rare examples that support an argument that is contradicted by the body of the evidence.)
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> LarI read your critique and don't really have a strong feeling one way or the other about the study, but it does seem like you have a dog in this fight.
The phrase "I have profound contempt for this latest work." just makes me think you're pro-medication? Just a wild guess. Nothing wrong with that, it just suggests a bias.
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