Joseph Biederman

They're not at all impressed by Harvard.

And in the book, I mentioned how Joseph Biederman, chief of pediatric psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, acknowledged to Senator Charles Grassley in testimony in front of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee that he had recently accepted $1.3 million from the drug companies that he had not publicly disclosed.

He's functioning as a paid spokesperson for the drug companies, and he's not disclosing that.

I got a flyer from Harvard Medical School saying, come to Harvard, three-day conference on best practice in evaluation and management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, led by the renowned Dr. Joseph Biederman.

No mention of the fact that Dr. Biederman is functioning as a paid spokesperson for the drug companies.

And he's getting much more money for the drug companies than he's getting from Harvard.

I'm just a family doctor.

You would've heard about this from someone like Dr. Joseph Biederman, chief of psychiatric research at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Well, obviously he didn't know where I was going with this.

The same thought occurred to Senator Charles Grassley, who summoned Dr. Biederman to the chambers of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee and said, "Dr.

His action was not unlawful, but it was unethical.

He should have told us.

I got a flyer from Harvard Medical School saying, "Come to Harvard for a three-day conference on best practice and evaluation and management of ADHD led by the renowned Dr. Joseph Biederman."

Wow.

American doctors don't because child psychiatry in this country is sick with hidden conflicts of interest.

I describe how the leaders of child psychiatry in this country, like Joseph Biederman and Fred Goodwin, former chief of the National Institute of Mental Health, told Senator Grassley that they've accepted millions of dollars from the drug companies that they haven't disclosed.

They're functioning as paid spokespersons for the drug companies.

So I own the copyright to Boys Adrift.

That's why we do research.

Many years ago, an old mentor of mine, Joe Biederman and myself, when we were unraveling all of this, We're discussing this and we both were absolutely sure before we, the return to see the analysis, I would see, we would see preferential stimulate use disorders and things because of, and we absolutely did not see that.

So.

And so you typically don't see those types of relationships.