June 2009

The Healthy Skeptic goes on sabbatical

By on June 30, 2009 in Uncategorized | 4 comments

If you're a subscriber, you may have noticed that the frequency of posts has slowed down a lot over the past few months. I'm now entering my final year of class and clinical internship (grad school for acupuncture & integrative medicine), and I'm also preparing to start a clinic when I graduate. Unfortunately, this leaves me little time to write anything for the blog. I've decided that I'm going to take the next year off ...
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When drug trials go terribly wrong

By on June 11, 2009 in Depression, Medical Industrial Complex | 0 comments

THS reader Christopher Lane brought this article to my attention, and asked me to forward it on to my readers. Yet another tragic consequence of dangerous and overused psychiatric drugs. Mary Weiss, a mother in Minnesota, was one such person who wrote me last month. I'd been on the radio, talking about issues tied to my book. Ms. Weiss wrote an email afterwards, telling me about her son, Dan Markingson, who'd been diagnosed with schizophrenia, though ...
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