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#534 - Dr Stuart Ritchie - Why Is Behavioural Genetics Such A Hated Science?

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Antidepressant Studies - Are They Exaggerated?

If you look at the studies on antidepressants, and my friend, Soloni D'Atani did a whole series on antidepressants and the research. Her overall conclusion was, yes, the effects are exaggerated in the literature. She found that even some of the negative ones were kind of written up in a slightly spin sort of way - saying like, well, this is very promising. But then there's like massive interpretational differences in how to look at the numbers. This is still going to have a big impact across all sorts of stuff. My interpretation is, we've got to do a bit better on this... We've got to really understand this and get better at treating depression.

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