MindFreedom International News - 21 November 2008
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21 November 2008
The New York Times just reported that National Public
Radio will
finally kick psychiatrist Fred Goodwin off the air after
more than a
decade of his shows promoting the mental health system.
Why?
Because Congress discovered that Dr. Goodwin was one of
many well
known psychiatrists who took huge pay offs from
psychiatric drug
companies without disclosing it.
By coincidence, Dr. Goodwin was reassuring radio
listeners of low
side effects of a drug on the very same day he received
one of his
pay-offs from the drug's manufacturer.
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MindFreedom David Oaks commented, "We're proud that
MindFreedom
International has been speaking out about Dr. Fred
Goodwin's
misbehavior since 1992 in Washington, D.C. during one of
our many
national peaceful protests of the American Psychiatric
Association.
Critics of Dr. Goodwin like courageous psychiatrist
Peter Breggin,
who is seldom heard on NPR, have been vindicated."
In other coincidences:
* MindFreedom is re-starting its own popular Internet
radio show.
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suggestions to
* MindFreedom International Board of Directors
unanimously voted to
support another of its peaceful protests of the American
Psychiatric
Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco in May 2009.
With leadership from MFI's Youth Committee, this
peaceful protest
will include 21st century media coverage: YouTube of
protesters
bringing enormous replicas of psychiatric pills to the
APA. Some
individuals are planning nonviolent civil disobedience.
MFI is
encouraging people to plan peaceful protests and Mad
Pride skits
wherever they are from May to July.
By the way, NPR had a red flag about the Goodwin scandal
six months
ago, but did little.
NPR Ombudsperson Alicia C. Shepard claimed on 20 May
2008 that
disclosing that "The Infinite Mind" was independently
produced from
NPR would be enough to address emerging questions about
conflicts of
interest.
* ACTION * ACTION * ACTION *
Please thank NPR for finally kicking off Fred Goodwin,
and encourage
NPR to provide more coverage to critics of the mental
health system.
Comment to NPR via a web form here:
