Also i often see people defending SSRIs or other drugs by linking to some published study online. But can a layperson just read some abstract or summary of a study and assume the published conclusion has any legitimacy?

Who ran the study, who really paid for it, what info was omitted, what was distorted, what biases corrupted the process?

I think we need people like Whitaker to dig deeper and make some sense out of the collective data. And if you say Whitaker is no good, then who do we trust?