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Drug Effectiveness: Overblown

As reported in the Psychotherapy Networker Jab/Feb 2010 edition, a professional magazine for the psychotherapy profession:

Erick Turner and other researchers at the Oregon Health and Science University subpoenaed the FDA to release all the studies on antidepressant effectiveness in its archives.  Because science journals prefer positive findings over negative ones, Turner and his colleagues were unsurprised to find unpublished studies concluding that SSRIs are no more effective the placebo*