On Sept. 20, 2005, in a program produced by Bill Lichtenstein, Frederick Goodwin warned that children with bipolar disorder who are left untreated could suffer brain damage.
I am an engineer and have my common sense with me all the time - when I see all these young Americans popping 5-10 pills every day, my heart sinks. It is because morons like Goodwin that your kids become pill-devouring zombies. Just check this out:
“But as we’ll be hearing today,” Dr. Goodwin reassured his audience, “modern treatments — mood stabilizers in particular — have been proven both safe and effective in bipolar children.”Dr. Goodwin warned that children with bipolar disorder who are left untreated could suffer brain damage, a controversial view. “But as we’ll be hearing today,” Dr. Goodwin reassured his audience, “modern treatments — mood stabilizers in particular — have been proven both safe and effective in bipolar children.”
That very day, GlaxoSmithKline paid Dr. Goodwin $2,500 to give a promotional lecture for its mood stabilizer drug, Lamictal, at the Ritz Carlton Golf Resort in Naples, Fla. Indeed, Glaxo paid Dr. Goodwin more than $329,000 that year for promoting Lamictal, records given Congressional investigators show.
Dr. Frederick Goodwin is not stupid. He's just another mothe*f***er making a good living on parents' ignorance and fear (after all, they love their children and would do anything for their well being).
Anyone knows where Frederick lives?
Also, would you buy any drug from GlaxoSmithKline after they proved again and again that they care only for their profits?
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I just saw your posting about The Infinite Mind. I have two comments in response:
1) I was not the producer of the "Bipolar Child" show; that program was produced by The Infinite Mind's executive producer at the time, June Peoples.
2) NPR's On The Media just retracted and apologized for its story stating that The Infinite Mind and I were aware of Fred Goodwin's fees for speaking on behalf of GlaxoSmithKline. As reported in Current, the newspaper of public broadcasting:
On The Media issues apology, correction on "Infinite Mind" show
On the Media has apologized for, and corrected, what it called a "lapse in journalistic judgment" concerning a November 2008 story on the public radio show The Infinite Mind. Dr. Fred Goodwin, the show's host, had stirred controversy when The New York Times reported that he had accepted more than a million dollars in speaking fees from drug companies and talked about their brand-name drugs on the show. The Infinite Mind producer Bill Lichtenstein had previously denied, in statements on his production company's website, knowledge of Goodwin's links to pharmaceutical firms. Host Brooke Gladstone said on March 22's OTM that an anonymous source used on the show turned out to have "no first-hand evidence that (Lichtenstein) knew of any fees." Gladstone admitted that OTM was wrong to not contact Lichtenstein for his comments. She said that was "a mistake, it wasn't fair and it didn't serve our listeners." The Infinite Mind ran for 10 years, ceasing production at the end of 2008. It was distributed to public radio stations and ran on NPR's Sirius Satellite channel.
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You can see the article at http://www.current.org/2009/03/otm-issues-apology-correction-on.html
- BL
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