"I feel like I'm being given only half the story: a well-founded and less-told half, but still I worry that the author might have chosen to omit any evidence that weakened his case."
I've been checking since the book came out and I have yet to find any intelligent criticisms of the book. There was one Amazon reviewer who claimed Whitaker was leaving out specific studies that contradicted him, though when I actually read them studies mentioned they either supporter Whitaker or else were orthogonal to the claims. If anyone has found anything intelligent on the subject I'd love to see it though.
It's important to remember also that the best case scenario is that these drugs aren't as outright harmful as the research suggests, the other issue is that most of the research supporting them is of extremely low quality, which is pretty self-evidently true.
I've been checking since the book came out and I have yet to find any intelligent criticisms of the book. There was one Amazon reviewer who claimed Whitaker was leaving out specific studies that contradicted him, though when I actually read them studies mentioned they either supporter Whitaker or else were orthogonal to the claims. If anyone has found anything intelligent on the subject I'd love to see it though.
It's important to remember also that the best case scenario is that these drugs aren't as outright harmful as the research suggests, the other issue is that most of the research supporting them is of extremely low quality, which is pretty self-evidently true.