June 23, 2020

A tale of David versus Goliath -- and Goliath won

June 02, 2020

GlaxoSmithKline's Study 329 of Paxil claimed the drug was "safe and effective" for the treatment of major depression in adolescents, even though their own data -- data no one else was allowed to see -- showed the stuff was totally ineffective and drove the kids crazy to boot. 

April 11, 2020

In the drugmakers' ongoing War on Children, Martin Whitely is one of the good guys, fighting back. 

March 06, 2020

After climbing upward steadily for centuries, life expectancy in the Western world has stalled, and in the United States has actually dropped, for five years in a row. This is big news – as big as global warming.

January 20, 2020

A son's moving tribute to his father

October 27, 2019

Psychiatry has hit a dead end. This book points the way forward. 

September 20, 2019

Some of our most vulnerable populations are being ruthlessly exploited by an industry that seemingly has abandoned all pretense of adhering to the maxim “Do no harm."

September 15, 2019

A top-drawer litigator lays it on the line. 

September 10, 2019

This book is indispensable reading for anyone interested in the drug companies -- and, to paraphrase Aristotle, you may not be interested in the drug companies, but that won't stop the drug companies from taking an interest in you. 

September 05, 2019

In this book, licensed nutritionist and dietician Kelly Dorfman offers a plethora of case histories of parents who reported stunning success in treating a wide assortment of childhood maladies – everything from recurring ear infections and skin rashes to ADHD and childhood bipolar disorder – by eliminating junk food and replacing it with a wholesome nourishing diet and carefully selected supplements.

September 02, 2019

This year’s incoming college freshmen cannot even remember a time when their country has not been at war. Thousands of our best and brightest young men and women are coming home physically and/or emotionally shattered, and what is their country doing to help them? All too often, all the wrong things.

August 29, 2019

From the beginning, Tonier Cain had the deck stacked against her. In an era in which psychology and psychiatry finally are waking up to the role of trauma in the genesis of those conditions called "mental illnesses," this book is indispensable reading -- the side of the story that all too often goes untold.

July 28, 2019

A devastating critique of biological psychiatry and a compassionate alternative

November 11, 2018

A top-flight cardiologist lays it on the line.

July 09, 2016

A work of great insight and compassion from an extraordinarily courageous medical doctor

May 20, 2016

This book tells the story of Hansford C Bayton, the son of a freed slave who went on to become owner and operator of five different steamboats that carried mail and passengers along the Rappahannock River in Virginia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a turbulent time for black Americans, a time in which the hope and promise of the Reconstruction was shattered by widespread disenfranchisement and violence.

May 20, 2016

A fascinating exposition on the evolution of the insect sting, by an intrepid scientist who has spent decades observing insects in their natural habitats on six continents.