Pater filii occisi. Scientist, dad, woodturner. Pres EntSocAB, 2022, ESCanada, 2000. Prof, environment & agriculture. Dexter Johnson Award in Music. はじめまして.
Alberta
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Fly experts? I found Lauxaniidae today. Am I correct? It has bare arista, as they do (not plumose, hairy, or fringed), and it has two large hairs (setae) above the eye (frons). The appearance matches. They seem to have increased in abundance. (So. Alberta, July 18, 2020)
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Combining hobbies. I'm lucky to have a spare day once in a while. I hired a car to go see the Kung Fu origins at Shaolin, and checked out the plants and animals nearby,
Good science can eventually expose bad science, but unfortunately the people using the bad science as policy or to inform treatment are not reading it.
This is certainly the most consequential paper published in child and adolescent psychiatry for the last few years. It shows that the meta-analyses that current child psychiatry guidelines rely on to recommend fluoxetine for depression were skewed by an unbelievable trial (n=40) in Iran which found an effect 15 times larger than the average.
When this trial is removed all meta-analyses find the same as a recent Cochrane analysis which found 'small and unimportant differences.'
The flawed meta-analyses by Zhou and @cipriani in the @TheLancet and Lancet Psychiatry need to be corrected.
And guideline committees need to update their guidance in the context of the harms of these drugs including withdrawal effects, sexual effects and agitation/akathisia and suicidality in a minority of youths exposed to them.
Link below
It's not too late to save your child.
"From Efficacy to Non-Efficacy: Lessons from Pediatric Fluoxetine Trials"-
Mad In America madinamerica.com/2026/09/fro…
