Medicalizing Behavior is Profitable
• Mental, Social Pseudoscience
Is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders junk science created to enrich drug companies?
... Fifty-six percent of its contributors have received research funding, speaking or consulting fees, or other forms of financial compensation from drug companies, the recent study reported (though the authors did not determine whether these relationships existed before, during, or after the experts worked on the manual).
The study's lead author concluded that such connections are troubling because pharmaceutical firms "have a vested interest in what mental disorders are included in the DSM." ...