Makes Me Want To Holler

While going through the wealth of mental health blogs I found yesterday, I scrolled down to this post on Furious Seasons. Here's an excerpt from the post:

Among other things, Wagner is one of the co-authors of the infamous and much-discredited Paxil Study 329, which claimed that Paxil was efficacious and safe in treating depression in adolescents when in fact the study's stats had been so jury-rigged that, in actuality, the drug hadn't beaten placebo and cases of suicidality encountered in the underlying clinical trial went unreported.

And here's a link to the study that the post mentions: Paxil Study 329

I'm a pretty careful consumer; I look up drugs before I take them. But I can't triple check every study to make sure the researcher hasn't been reported as being in bed with pharmaceutical companies, and I shouldn't have to.

This kind of stuff makes me want to scream out loud. I trust my brain to these meds. Who the hell do these people think they are?