Scientific censorship in psychiatry, Robert Whitaker

Описание: Robert Whitaker at the Symposium about Scientific Freedom, Copenhagen, 9 March 2019.

Lecture: "Scientific censorship in psychiatry."

Robert Whitaker is an American journalist and author who has won numerous awards as a journalist covering medicine and science, including the George Polk Award for Medical Writing and a National Association for Science Writers’ Award for best magazine article.

In 1998, he co-wrote a series on psychiatric research for the Boston Globe that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

His first book, Mad in America, was named by Discover magazine as one of the best science books of 2002.

Anatomy of an Epidemic won the 2010 Investigative Reporters and Editors book award for best investigative journalism.

He is the publisher of madinamerica.com.

This lecture is part of the Symposium about Scientific Freedom and the inauguration of the Institute for Scientific Freedom, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, 9 March 2019.

World renowned Danish scientist Peter C Gøtzsche is the founder of the institute.

The Institute’s primary area of focus is healthcare and the institute has three main visions:

All science should strive to be free from financial conflicts of interest.

All science should be published as soon as possible, and made freely accessible.

All scientific data, including study protocols, should be freely accessible, allowing others to do their own analyses.