A letter supporting the restoration of funding to a world-class hotline for women at genetic risk of cancer was easy to write. The letter became a much larger initiative to keep the charity going in which anyone can participate. Outside Buckingham Palace (Source Wendy Watson) How could there have been…

A Temple University faculty member doxed a school mental health counselor in North Carolina and filed a complaint to her licensing board. — Now the counselor is being impersonated on Twitter in racist tweets. She and her husband are accused of child abuse by pseudonymous trolls. This mayhem has become commonplace on social media and feeds on and flows back into what is an international problem, hateful attacks from people who have little…

Would I be arrested for passing out links to my Medium article on campus? Are free speech, common sense, and human decency in such short supply at Temple University? —

The Veterans Crisis Line is Failing American Vets, a Scathing Federal Audit Concludes — The Veterans Hospital Administration (VHA) tells the American public that preventing suicide among veterans is its highest priority. Some of us know the real reason why this keeps being said. …

As I have recently written on Medium, you do not have to be anti-psychiatry to oppose Pharma’s overselling of medication to people who do not require or benefit from it. Many of the early pioneer neuropsychopharmacologists became anti-corruption, but not antipsychiatry, They recognized that medications had a place in mental…

The investigation is a direct response to my emails about Temple’s College of Public Health. — Hate spewing out of the Temple College of Public Health comes at very troubled times in American politics and on Philly’s unsafe streets. I want Temple to collaborate in just saying “No!” to hate. I relied on a simple, but often effective whistleblower’s trick. In a pair of emails, I…

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) called the generic drug industry “a swamp that must be drained.” — This book review originally appeared on the website of the International Network for the History of Neuropsychopharmacology which grants permission for republishing what is found there. This Medium story is quite unusual and it is unique for me. I am calling attention to the extraordinary Barry Blackwell, not the book…

A peer-reviewed article offers false promises and poor clinical recommendations rooted in suicidology research that has gone bad. — In this installment, I debunk the extraordinary claims of a team of well-published academic psychologists who believe that they can predict which youth who attempt to die by suicide will go on to lead exceptionally happy and productive lives. We need to be toughminded in interpreting research that is intended…

A psychologist warns about the dangers of young girls having smartphones and unsupervised time on social media. One of the key scientific papers she cites as evidence actually offers zero support for the warning. — Ambitious academic psychologists quickly discover a startling reality. …