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David Healy
Personal blog · davidhealy.orghealthscience
David Healy's personal blog at davidhealy.org covers health and science. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link David Healy's blog for his writing on antidepressants, serotonin and depression, and psychiatry's overprescription and drug industry influence, including his Bad Pharma review.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Making medicines safer for all of us Adverse drug events are now the fourth leading cause of death in hospitals. It’s a reasonable bet they are an even greater cause of death in non-hospital settings where there is no one to monitor things going wrong and no one to intervene to save a life. In
What Hacker News says?
See also "Serotonin and Depression" from David Healy (2015) https://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h1771 https://davidhealy.org/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-seroto...
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on ““No convincing evidence” that depression is caused by low serotonin levels”Submitted The Prozac Era. What Next? as a story · 12 points
HN discussionhttp://davidhealy.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/2000-Healy-...
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on “Yale scientists explain how ketamine vanquishes depression within hours”This is the kind of content we want on the front page of HN? A "review" that is nothing more than content copied out of the book with a few paragraphs introducing each copied section, for a book that has been out for almost a year and a half? If you want to read some real reviews of Bad Pharma a quick search will find you these: http://davidhealy.org/not-so-bad-pharma/ http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/17/ba…
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on “Book review: Bad Pharma”Thanks. Here is his article that he is talking about: http://davidhealy.org/psychiatry-gone-astray/ Along these lines (overprescription, overdiagnosis, disease mongering) "Saving Normal" by Frances Allen may be a good read as well.
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on “Extreme side-effects of antidepressants”