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. …

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. …

It is bad enough when advocates for public health interventions lock away their evidence in paywalled journals, but the problem is compounded when their publicly available abstracts are misleading. — If we agree this is a problem, whose responsibility is it to fix it? Is there a moral and ethical responsibility for those who push for major public health policy change to share the evidence on which their proposal is based with relevant stakeholders?

Advocates calling for government intervention to curb teen girls’ access to social media must present much better evidence of harm than they have come up with so far. The advocates’ own research is quite flawed and unpersuasive. — My cup ran over with criticisms of a very important study of the effects of social media on teen girls’ mental health, without my getting beyond the abstract. …