Here's an article describing how the Board of Psychiatrists who write the criteria for every Mental Disorder that is recognized in this country, are also affiliated with the big drug companies.

Even with what we all know, the blatantness of this is shocking:

https://tinyurl.com/hayrb


A couple of sample paragraphs:

Every psychiatric expert involved in writing the standard diagnostic criteria for disorders such as depression and schizophrenia has had financial ties to drug companies that sell medications for those illnesses, a new analysis has found.

Of the 170 experts in all who contributed to the manual that defines disorders from personality problems to drug addiction, more than half had such ties, including 100 percent of the experts who served on work groups on mood disorders and psychotic disorders. The analysis did not reveal the extent of their relationships with industry or whether those ties preceded or followed their work on the manual.

I see nothing wrong with conflict of interest in Official Medicine. Heck, it's everywhere--Official...Alternative...and everything in between. You just gotta accept that all people everywhere operate in enlightened self-interest and make your own choices with that in mind.

Up to your old tricks still I see, SoCalGal....

DELETE

And what might that "trick" be, Billcatt--an apparently vain attempt to bring a temperate voice to an OBJECTIVE discussion of health care?

*sigh*