> And also how I'm sure someone who is so involved with treatment on a practical level would have a pretty solid critical perspective on the research you are citing.

A lot of people blame doctors for getting things wrong (in the sense of prescribing ineffective or positively harmful medications). That doesn't seem fair to me, however. The doctors get their information from the drug companies (and they are indeed smart enough to appreciate that that is 'advertising' rather than 'information'). The problem comes with medication trials being reported in the literature, however. Practicing doctors simply don't have the time to read every study that has been conducted and to grasp the statistical manipulation of the data in order to draw their own reasoned conclusions. Instead, they trust that conclusions drawn from peer reviewed leading journals are accurate and they base their prescription decisions on that. I mean really, what else are they supposed to do?

> The words 'expert vs amateur' seem to spring to mind ...

Please don't jump to conclusions about me. You have no idea who I am and what training I may or may not have had. If you are unable to discuss as opposed to namecall then please leave this thread for people who are able to discuss.

> I would hold the expectation that someone like Dr. Wylie would have a fairly good reason to call something BS, and wouldn't be throwing that opinion around lightly.

The difference is that I'm questioning the information that Dr. Wylie is supposed to be basing his medical decisions on. He has already granted that the APA knows full well that SSRI's are barely more effective than placebo and yet Dr Wylie posted their reccomendation (that he seemed to be endorsing) that people take and stay on their anti-depressant medication.

The issue is: Reinterpretation of the studies (studies funded by the drug companies no less) seems to be resulting in their reconcluding that SSRI's are likely to be more harmful than helpful to:

- children
- adolescents

and i'm saying 'what next'.

aka: lets look again at the data on adults.