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Tim Wysocki, PhD
Ohio State University Children's Hospital Columbus

R. Wayne Fuqua, PhD
Western Michigan University Kalamazoo

JAMA. 1990;264(24):3145.

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To the Editor. —

In their recent citation analysis of articles authored or coauthored by Dr Stephen E. Breuning, Garfield and Welljams-Dorof¹ have misled readers by implying that all of these studies are fraudulent. This misrepresentation is evident in several sections of their article.

Their quotations from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Investigative Panel Report² that "none of the described studies of psychopharmacologic treatment had been carried out," "only a few of the experimental subjects... were ever studied," and "the complex designs and rigorous methods reported were not employed" erroneously intimate that these statements apply to all of the 20 studies under consideration in their article. In fact, these quotes were drawn from a secondary source³ that extracted these statements from sections of the NIMH report dealing with three psychopharmacologic treatment studies and with the panel's specific conclusions about Breuning's individual culpability. Other studies that . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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