Retracted studies threaten the conclusions of meta analyses that include them.
“Where a retraction undermines confidence in the conclusions, a decision may be required on whether the systematic review itself should be retracted, in line with guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics”
Psilocybin for "treatment resistant depression" - new RCT:
"Response rates at Week 6 did not differ significantly between groups"
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Please support your friends and colleagues in the US.
www.standupforscience.net
In case it wasn’t extremely obviously why I and many colleagues here (those still allowed to enter) haven’t been to US conferences in the past 2 years. Friends, please stay safe at the upcoming @improvingpsych.org and @hitop-system.bsky.social conferences.
Very happy to see Florian et al. tackle that smug term "real world evidence", which always sounded me like "University? I earned my degree at the school of hard knocks, mate"
Of all interventions evaluated for common mental disorders, less than 4% (3,9%) were supported by high quality evidence and were statistically significantly superior to the comparator. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
It's a bit like someone criticizing the evidence for homeopathy and a homeopath replying: "Hey, the evidence for homeopathy isn't any worse than the evidence for healing."
Word!
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It's interesting how clinical psychologists often seem compelled to point out that the evidence base for psychopharmacology is no stronger than that for psychotherapy whenever someone highlights the poor quality of the evidence supporting psychotherapy.
