Psychiatry Won’t Pull Paper on Misleading Safety of PAXIL, Despite Massive Drug Settlement, Consumers Get “Expression of Concern”
Republished with permission from AbleChild.
A D.C. judge just sided with a long‑discredited Paxil study instead of the kids it was used to sell drugs to. GlaxoSmithKline has already paid $3 billion for fraud that included how it pushed Paxil for children and supported this very study, yet the article still stands in the medical record. Those who rush to always defend psychiatry as “experts” of the human condition should really look at the bigger picture.
According to the lawsuit, that study falsely claimed Paxil was safe and effective for depressed teens, even though the company’s own trial data did not show real benefit and did show serious safety concerns, including suicidal thoughts and behavior. The case explains why lawyer George Murgatroyd went after the journal and its publisher for continuing to publish and sell the article, how the court’s ruling let psychiatry’s publishing system avoid full accountability once again, and how consumers were left with only a small warning label on the paper instead of the clear retraction many believe is needed.
At the center of this case is attorney George W. Murgatroyd III, a product‑liability lawyer who has represented families whose children died by suicide after taking Paxil. Murgatroyd sued the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the publisher Elsevier, arguing they were still “publishing, distributing, and selling a fraudulent scientific article” that misleads the public and endangers adolescent mental health, while charging readers to access it. He asked the D.C. Superior Court to treat that article as a deceptive practice under the District’s consumer‑protection law and to order a full retraction.
In March 2026, Judge Robert Okun dismissed his case. The judge did not say Study 329 was honest or reliable. Instead, he ruled that Murgatroyd lacked legal standing and that a journal article is not a “consumer good or service” under that particular law, so the court could not use that statute to force a retraction. In practical terms, the decision shields the journal and publisher: they keep the article online, charging for access, under the protection of free‑speech arguments rather than being treated like sellers of a defective product. For an industry already tied to a historic fraud settlement over this very drug and trial, it is another escape.
Murgatroyd’s work still produced one real gain for the public. After he filed his complaint, JAACAP finally attached an “expression of concern” to Study 329 in 2025, warning readers that serious issues have been raised about the article and that further review is underway. That warning label stays with the paper and marks it as disputed rather than trustworthy, a change that likely would not have happened without Murgatroyd pushing. In a landscape where a flawed study helped justify giving a risky drug to teens, naming him and his effort matters: he forced at least a small, visible sign of truth into the official record, even as the larger fight for justice and a full retraction continues.
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They think drugs will fix a thing.
We need more homeopathic and naturopathics.
Majority of medicine today is a money making scheme/scam pushed by the pharmaceutical medical industrial complex. People are better off if the avoid it like the plague, because it is a plague, that causes harm and shortens lives. Medical mistakes are the third leading cause of deaths in the US.
So true about the money making scam. My post is above telling what it did to me as an adult.
Spot on. Particularly in the case of psychiatric drugs.
Something is wrong when drugs routinely prescribed for depression carry black box warnings of increased suicide risk:
citalopram (Celexa), fluvoxamine (Luvox), paroxetine (Paxil), fluoxetine (Prozac), sertraline (Zoloft), venlafaxine (Effexor), mirtazapine (Remeron), nefazodone (Serzone), and bupropion (Wellbutrin).
Assumption of judicial supremacy need to end. Where's the DOJ? Or the FBI? These cases of obvious favoritism come up and one never hears of a thorough investigation of the judge's finances or connections.
SSRI's are still in trial without follow up. They really don't know how it works other than it alters neural pathways. Everyone is unique so those pathways are unique. One neural inhibitor for 8 billion different brains doesn't sound very safe. Sounds like a 50 year trial without follow up.
Not surprised ….
They are still encouraging you to get the toxic Covid shots too.
RFK Jr. pulled it for kids but not for adults … Disappointed ….
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Congressional democrats would not have allowed taking it away from adults.
Big Pharma is a monster, but if enough people keep suing the drug companies, it should make a hole in their armor.
Ban ALL drug commercials from Television!
Not safe for anyone.
Caused addiction after short time use.
Ask an ADULT who when through WITHDRAW HELL after only being on that crap for 1 month in the 90's.
With the Symptoms by caused using it, I'd be dead if I'd listened to the "doctor" and stayed on that crap long term.
I just posted above about the very same thing. Imagine how children feel on that stuff if we as adults can't handle it.
They won't pull the covid death shot despite killing millions – safety of the human race is dead last against $$$$$$$$$$$
At their core, Depression, Anxiety and even Schizophrenia, are diseases of metabolic and mitochondrial dysfunction in the brain and body. Dr. Chris Palmer, a Harvard Psychiatrist, has been treating chronic and treatment resistant Depression and Anxiety with the Ketogenic diet and putting patients into remission. The brain is only 2% of our body mass but consumes 20% of our energy.
Even Alzheimers has been called Type 3 Diabetes.
Our addiction to highly processed foods and Industrial Seed Oils has changed the substances from which our brains are made and has the greatest effect on those that are still growing their brains…our children. It's like giving them a car that can only go 20 mph and forcing them to drive on the freeway.
Listen to Dr. Chris Palmer on Andrew Huberman's podcast and prepare to starting eating your way to better mental health.
AVOID PHARMACEUTICALS AT ALL COSTS! PSYCHOLOGY IS A B.S. AND CORRUPT INDUSTRY TO KEEP YOU SICK & TWISTED WHILE MAKING THEM RICH.
All drugs affect people differently. If you feel suicidal, tell your doctor.
Stay away from pharmaceuticals and you won't feel suicidal.
In the early 90s, the physicians desk reference published by the manufacture said Ritalin should not be given to kids because it would stunt their growth. Doctors prescribed it anyways and soon that just disappeared. Kat Timpf took it when she was a kid. Just saying
Psychiatry=quack medicine that does more harm than good
Even the commercials on tv tell you how bad the side effects are. It's like they warn you then push it on you.
I sent my son Timmy to a child psychiatrist.
The kid didn't help Timmy at all.
Mind over matter, folks. You have the tools within your mind. Nobody needs psychiatric meds. The whole "chemical imbalance in the brain" was made up. They admitted it.
Why on earth would they put children on a drug like Paxil ??? My doctor put me on it and my little world fell apart at a ripe age….I just can't believe a child could handle this drug at all. I told all my friends I called it "a don't give a sh*t pill".
I literally felt like I was drowning in a pool of self pity brought on by Paxil….and really needed no drug at all. You have to be careful what you tell your doctor when they ask you questions. They are so ready to " get you hooked up".
I stayed on Paxil for over a year because of the terrible, weird, feelings that come from withdrawal from it. Never again will I ever let a doctor tell me I need something that I know myself I don't need.
God bless the children who end up on Paxil…..it should be banned even for adults.
So that's the famous Murgatroyd as in Heavens to Murgatroyd?
(I'm sorry, but I couldn't help myself)
People need tobacco and booze, not pills
Yup, been at the Computer to long today, it's time for a Brew an a Smoke. Have a Good one.
Snagglepuss!
The same judge that dismissed this case also released a murderer early during covid and guess what?
HE MURDERED ANOTHER PERSON , AGAIN !!!!!!! > > REMOVE THE JUDGE !!!
They don’t care. It’s money laundering they love more
The irony is that it's mostly the woke crowds children who are taking the psychotic drugs. They don't have peace of mind, so they use drugs to tame the demons that enter from the hate fueled on social media. The more they click the more the algorithms keep feeding it's host with lies and deception to the point of radicalizing/demonizing the sick wokeist. Then they act out with extremism. Only the Lord can break those chains and give one a peaceful again.
Sounds like a scotus case to me.
A LAWYER FOR VICTIMS HAS "LACK OF STANDING"????????? WHO HAS STANDING, THE DEAD PEOPLE KILLED BY THIS DRUG ALREADY?
Unelected judges with no punishment for bad rulings
There needs to be serious punishment for these judges who constantly make excuses to throw out legitimate cases on technicalities. Appeal standing or refile this suit!!
Judges in medical/pharmaceutical malpractice cases many times, like this, make CORRUPT summary decisions BEFORE the case ever gets started, so they don't have to be ON RECORD reviewing evidence.
Not much different than what the pharmaceutical industry does in not performing safety experiments on its drugs BEFORE they get green lit by pharmaceutical reps SITTING ON THE FDA NEW DRUGS REVIEW BOARDS. Then when they get sued years later in massive malpractice lawsuits, there is NO EVIDENCE to introduce that they had supposedly any prior knowledge that the drugs were unsafe BEFORE they were unleashed on an unsuspecting public.
Basically, the off charts criminal pharmaceutical industry also pays off the judges overseeing the future cases to dismiss them by summary decisions, as it did for Paxil, before the cases ever get started.
Anyone who is invested in pharmaceutical stock may as well be invested in murderers, too. Not much difference, except in the MASS MURDERS committed by the pharmaceutical industry through their "correctly prescribed" drugs….well over 150,000 A YEAR. ( NOT counting the mRNA vaccines).
Q: What does the AMA and BIg Pharma have in common?
A: Both are in it for the money at the expense of the American people.
Just one moe nail THEY use to put in da Globalist coffin so THEY can kill 95% of us on dis Rock!
Whole you're at it, pull the research papers indicating Wegovy is safe.
You're one of the Pioneers in the Keto world. Well Done!
I put my Life long Irritable bowel Syndrome into complete remission 9 years ago after listening to Dr. Shawn Baker and trying the Carnivore diet (extreme Keto) 4 days into the diet and my gut felt completely normal. I haven't looked back.
One of the options for those who can't give up the carbs are Ketone Salts and Ketone Esters, supplements that can provide Ketones to the blood stream where they are preferentially used by the brain and the heart. Our liver stops producing Ketone bodies as soon as Insulin rises in response to carb intake. This may be a therapy that could be used with a lower carb but not Keto diet.
I never heard of the ketone salts and esters. That could be interesting indeed.
The pharma medical system will never tell the truth & can never be trusted.
Psychiatry generally is about fifty percent totally full of shitttt, and fifty percent totally corrupt.
Jim and Joe are protectors of the pedo epstein class and the virus zionisim.