Category Archives: psychiatry
Psych journal in revolt as it publishes paper saying masturbation and gay sex are harmful
Several psychiatry researchers have been unsuccessfully seeking distance from a dodgy journal with which they’re affiliated – and which has now published an article claiming homosexuality and masturbation deserve to be considered (or reconsidered, as the case may be) mental illnesses. The 2021 paper, “Review of Removing Homosexuality and Masturbation from the List of Sexual … Continue reading Psych journal in revolt as it publishes paper saying masturbation and gay sex are harmful
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“Honest errors happen in science:” JAMA journal retracts paper on antidepressants
A review of scores of studies on antidepressants has been retracted because it used an incorrect analysis. The original paper, published in JAMA Psychiatry on February 19, 2020, looked at individual differences in patients taking antidepressants and concluded that there were significant differences beyond the placebo effect or the data’s statistical noise. The paper earned … Continue reading “Honest errors happen in science:” JAMA journal retracts paper on antidepressants
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Reviewers asked authors to change their study design. It apparently didn’t go well.
In what the editor of a psychiatry journal says in an unusual case, the authors of a paper on treatments for depression have retracted it after being alerted to “inconsistencies” stemming from a change to their study design that the peer reviewers had requested. Here’s the retraction notice, in The Journal of Nervous and Mental … Continue reading Reviewers asked authors to change their study design. It apparently didn’t go well.
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Catholic medical journal pulls paper on conversion therapy over statistical problems
The journal for a religious medical group is retracting a paper that supported the discredited practice of conversion therapy for homosexuals over concerns about the statistical analyses — or lack thereof — in the research. The paper, “Effects of therapy on religious men who have unwanted same-sex attraction,” was published last year in The Linacre … Continue reading Catholic medical journal pulls paper on conversion therapy over statistical problems
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Ketamine for depression? Paper retracted for error that double-counted clinical trial participants
A psychiatry journal has retracted a 2015 meta-analysis on the effectiveness of ketamine for depression after readers found that the article double-counted patients in some studies, thereby inflating the apparent benefits of the drug. The article, “Efficacy of ketamine in bipolar depression: systematic review and meta-analysis,” was published in the Journal of Psychiatric Practice by … Continue reading Ketamine for depression? Paper retracted for error that double-counted clinical trial participants
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In a first, U.S. CDC retracts, replaces study about suicide risk in farmers
In a first for the CDC, the agency’s premier scientific publication has retracted a 2016 article on suicide, five months after a news story pointed out serious errors in the paper. The article, initially published as “Suicide Rates by Occupational Group — 17 States, 2012,” had purported to find that farmers were at particularly high … Continue reading In a first, U.S. CDC retracts, replaces study about suicide risk in farmers
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A university went to great lengths to block the release of information about a trial gone wrong. A reporter fought them and revealed the truth.
Here’s a story that shows the lengths a public university — The University of Illinois at Chicago — went to block the release of information about a child psychiatry trial gone wrong, and how a reporter — Jodi S. Cohen of ProPublica — fought them effectively at every turn to reveal the truth. Earlier this … Continue reading A university went to great lengths to block the release of information about a trial gone wrong. A reporter fought them and revealed the truth.
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Child psychiatrist’s research was suspended “indefinitely” following probe
The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) permanently suspended all research activities for a child psychiatrist years ago following an inquiry into her work, Retraction Watch has learned. In 2015, a UIC spokesperson told us the university had suspended Mani Pavuluri’s clinical research in 2013, after a child in one of her studies had been … Continue reading Child psychiatrist’s research was suspended “indefinitely” following probe
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Authors retract, replace highly cited paper on ADHD in kids
Researchers have retracted and replaced a 2014 paper in JAMA Psychiatry, exploring a new way to classify attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children, after discovering errors in the data. Some experts have criticized the current diagnostic criteria for ADHD—noting, in some cases, it could inflate the rate of diagnosis. Sarah L. Karalunas, the paper’s corresponding … Continue reading Authors retract, replace highly cited paper on ADHD in kids
Child took wrong compound for over a year after “communication error”
A journal is retracting a paper after it discovered researchers gave a child the wrong supplement for more than a year. Rhiannon Bugno, managing editor for Biological Psychiatry, told Retraction Watch the mix-up did not put the patient at risk. However, the mistake was enough for the journal’s editor, John Krystal, of Yale University, to … Continue reading Child took wrong compound for over a year after “communication error”