Gretchen Watson

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Gretchen Watson

Gretchen Watson

@DrGWatson

Clinical & pediatric psychologist who explores why so many kids are on psych meds and still unwell.

Virginia, USA Katılım Ocak 2010
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Gretchen Watson
Gretchen Watson@DrGWatson·
The President-Elect of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Timothy E. Wilens, MD, did not appreciate my comments at the Mental Health & Overmedicalization Summit in Washington, D.C. last week. What did I say? I referred to long-term follow-up data from the NIMH-funded Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD (MTA), which showed that prolonged stimulant use is associated with a deterioration in academic and social-emotional functioning. Shame on this industry-co-opted psychiatrist for overselling the benefits of drug therapy, and shame on Nature for publishing related research without providing links to the underlying data.nature.com/articles/d4158…
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When AACAP appoint Wilens as president of the organization, you know the field has been corrupted/been bought and paid for by Big Pharma.
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Nature did not include links to any of the MTA study results showing that longterm use of stimulants is associated with a deterioration in academic and social-emotional function - information I, of course, shared with her. Why does the media continually give credence to researchers whose corruption has been documented? Hmmm
Paul D. Thacker@thackerpd

Nature Magazine is now a Big Pharma mouthpiece. They quote the corrupt Timothy Wilens knocking down @SecKennedy, who states the obvi: psych meds are overprescribed to kids. I ran the Senate investigation, covered by Nature, that caught Wilens taking tons of Big Pharma cash. Nature is now trying to pretend that Wilens isn't who he is--a Harvard professor so in love with Big Pharma that his scandal forced Harvard to redo their entire conflict of interest policies, across the campus and all hospitals. Shameful reporting today by Nature, but this has become the norm and liberal outlets ally themselves with Big Pharma.

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Many thanks to the @MAHA_Institute Institute and the @_innercompass Compass Initiative for inviting me to participate in an historic mental health summit in D.C. on Monday. This summit showed its human cost of the ADHD prescribing cascade through the powerful testimony of three young adults who lived the harm. The fact that HHS leaders were present and engaged gives hope that we can reverse the ADHD epidemic.
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Gretchen Watson@DrGWatson·
@ChildrensHD @brownstoneinst I say this all.the.time. As Dr. Marcia Angell, a Harvard physician and 20 year editor of New England Journal of Medicine, explained years ago, we have no idea if a drug is safe until it has been on the market for 7-10 years.
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Children’s Health Defense@ChildrensHD·
Dr. Meryl Nass: “Every drug and vaccine, when it first comes out, is essentially experimental.” “It’s been given to a small number of healthy people, and then the population gets it.” “It has not been given to people with all sorts of genetic differences, immune problems, or pregnancy." @NassMeryl
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Spoken by someone who is an expert on withdrawal for having been through drug withdrawal himself many, many times!
Daniel Owens@dsowens17

Robert F Kennedy Jr on the dangers of SSRIs: "I’ve watched people come off SSRIs....I watched a family member get off them after a couple of years, and she was suicidal literally every day. She woke up every morning and said, ‘I don’t want to live.’ She said, ‘The only reason I’m staying alive is for you guys, for the family.’ That’s heartbreaking to hear from a family member. And I’ve heard that from hundreds and hundreds of people, the same story again and again. It can be prolonged, and for many patients it’s completely unexpected. Physicians often handle this by saying, ‘This is your original symptoms reasserting themselves, get back on the SSRIs,’ and they get locked into a lifetime cycle that, for many patients, is cataclysmic. It’s a system failure." RFJ Jr at the MAHA Institute at the Mental Health & Overmedicalization Summit May 4, 2026 @MikhailaFuller @_innercompass @MAHA_Institute

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Dr Joanna Moncrieff
Dr Joanna Moncrieff@joannamoncrieff·
More disease-mongering from the Royal College of Psychiatrists. As if middle aged women aren't medicated enough (25% take antidepressants). theguardian.com/society/2026/m…
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Just because: “This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” G.B.S.
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Bob Golen
Bob Golen@BobGolen·
Just my luck, my 250 million year old salt has expired
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ⁿᵉʷˢ Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
ⁿᵉʷˢ Robert F. Kennedy Jr.@RobertKennedyJc·
Where are my early risers at this beautiful Monday morning? Let's crush it today! Good morning, everyone! MAHA
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A good reason to keep an open mind about modern medical recommendations: “There was a time within living memory when pre-frontal lobotomy was considered cutting edge medicine (pun intended). Its founder won the Nobel Prize for Medicine.”
Brownstone Institute@brownstoneinst

There was a time when mainstream medicine actively promoted OxyContin and other deadly narcotics as safe and minimally addictive. Hundreds of thousands died as a result. ~@cjbakermd The Five Big Lies of Vaccinology brownstone.org/articles/the-f…

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