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Patrick D Hahn

Patrick D Hahn is the author of Prescription for Sorrow: Antidepressants, Suicide, and Violence (Samizdat Health Writer's Cooperative) and Madness and Genetic Determinism: Is Mental Illness in Our Genes? (Palgrave MacMillan). Dr. Hahn is an Affiliate Professor of Biology at Loyola University Maryland.

Most Recent Articles by Patrick D Hahn:


Hope or Hype: Part 2: How Safe is the Covid Vaccine?

Hope or Hype: Part 2: How Safe is the Covid Vaccine?Peter Doshi is an Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Health Services at the University of Maryland, an Associate Editor at the BMJ, and a leading advocate for clinical trial transparency.  In a November 26 editorial in the BMJ, Dr. Doshi noted that we still don't know whether the vaccine saves lives or prevents transmission of the disease to others. Moreover, he argued that without access to the patient-level data, we don't even really know whether the vaccine has any efficacy regarding the primary endpoint of the trial, which is Covid-19 infection of any severity.  Related Series: Hope or Hype: Part 1: How Effective is the Covid Vaccine?Hope or Hype: Part 2: How Safe is the Covid Vaccine?
- Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Hope or Hype: Part 1: How Effective is the Covid Vaccine?

Hope or Hype: Part 1: How Effective is the Covid Vaccine?"Help is on the way." – U.S. Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams "This is a day we've been waiting and praying for." New York Mayor Bill deBlasio "This is the light at the end of the tunnel." New York Governor Andrew Cuomo So our rulers have greeted the rollout of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine. And in a nation that has been battered by months of lockdowns, riots, business failures, job losses, evictions, depression, and a whole host of associated social evils, these words may sound like music to our ears. But does the reality live up to the hype?  Related Series: Hope or Hype: Part 1: How Effective is the Covid Vaccine?Hope or Hype: Part 2: How Safe is the Covid Vaccine?
- Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Do Masks Cause Infections?

A 1981 study published in the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England looked at the effects of masks on post-operative wound infections in a forty-bed surgical ward. All kinds of surgeries were performed there: cholecystectomies, gastrectomies, thyroidectomies, bowel resections, prostatectomies, herniorrhaphies, cystoscopies, bronchoscopies, and gastroscopies. No masks were worn in the operating room for the six-month period from March-August 1980.  The number of post-operative wound infections dramatically decreased
- Sunday, December 6, 2020

Unmasking the Truth: Part 2: A Fever Pitch of Hysteria

Our rulers’ staggering indifference to the lack of evidence for the efficacy of masks – and their staggering indifference to the potential harms – is matched by their stunning arrogance in flouting the rules they have created for the rest of us. One after another has been spotted in public, barefaced and unashamed, including the aforementioned Dr. Fauci and Governor Cuomo, along with the governor’s younger brother, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, who visited his home-under-construction in the Hamptons, sans mask, while infected with the coronavirus and suffering from symptoms. When confronted by a local resident about his hypocrisy, Cuomo wittily called the other man a “jackass loser.”
- Tuesday, September 15, 2020


Urgent Appeal to Readers: Fearless Investigative Reporter David Daleiden on the hook for $195K fine

Urgent Appeal to Readers: Fearless Investigative Reporter David Daleiden on the hook for $195K fineFearless investigative reporter David Daleiden is now on the hook for a $195,000 fine imposed by a federal judge, for attempting to defend himself against criminal charges filed in a state court. Daleiden rose to national prominence in 2015 with the release of a number of surreptitiously obtained video recordings of conversations with officials from Planned Parenthood, discussing the procurement for research purposes of "tissue" from the remains of aborted fetuses.
- Tuesday, June 18, 2019


Canada Free Press columnist Michael Fumento held in Colombian jail on trumped-up charges

Canada Free Press columnist Michael Fumento held in Colombian jail on trumped-up charges Iconoclastic journalist and Canada Free Press columnist Michael Fumento is currently being held in atrocious conditions in a Colombian jail on absurdly trumped-up charges. Michael Fumento is the author of numerous books including The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS and The Fat of the Land. More recently he saw combat as an embedded reporter with United States troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some of his combat video recordings have been aired on the History Channel. Michael Fumento’s recent troubles began Easter Sunday 1 April when he was attacked on the streets of Bogota by a man armed with a knife. The police arrived and arrested Michael. He was brought before a judge and accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at a house owned by the father of the knife-wielding assailant. The bomb-thrower was described by witnesses only as “a man wearing blue jeans.” Michael was charged with arson and attempted murder.
- Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Patient safety is our highest concern

Last February, Dr. Bérard and her colleagues published an updated analysis of the Quebec Pregnancy Cohort data. Between 1998 and 2009, the rate of antidepressant use during pregnancy for the study population doubled, from 2.1% to 4.3%. During that same period, the rate of major congenital malformations increased by more than 50%, and the rate of maternal depression went up slightly as well.
- Saturday, June 10, 2017

"I was absolutely distraught"

Lyam David-Kilker was born on 24 October 2005, the second son of Michelle David and Miles Kilker of Bensalem, Pennsylvania. At birth he seemed like a normal, happy, healthy infant, but all that soon changed.
- Friday, June 9, 2017

A gigantic uncontrolled experiment

Since the beginning of the modern psychopharmaceutical era, the proportion of the population diagnosed with depression has skyrocketed. A condition that once affected fewer than one person out of a thousand now afflicts more than one out of twenty. Today major depression is the leading cause of disability for adults between the ages of 15 and 43.
- Thursday, June 8, 2017


Part 2: "The task of childhood"

In an attempt to ensure psychotropic medications are being appropriately prescribed to children, the Maryland Medicaid Pharmacy Program has established the Peer Review Program for Mental Health, in collaboration with the Behavioral Health Administration, the University of Maryland Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and School of Pharmacy, and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Any prescription for antipsychotic medication to any child under 18 is automatically referred to the program.
- Friday, December 2, 2016

"An evil drug"

“It’s an evil drug.” So says Dam Le, who as a boy was prescribed Johnson & Johnson's blockbuster drug Risperdal while in the custody of the Maryland foster care system.
- Thursday, December 1, 2016

Feasting on the dead

“Hammerhead sharks feasting on the dead make a unique sound.” So says William, a disabled Navy veteran and survivor of a horrifying incident that occurred in the Persian Gulf. At the age of twenty, William enlisted in the Navy and served for six years, working on radar and weapons systems. On 18 November 2001, he was part of a team from the destroyer USS Peterson that boarded the Samra, a suspected oil smuggler sailing under the UAE flag. The Samra capsized on the port side, and William spent the night clinging to debris, waiting to be rescued, and listening to the sounds of sharks devouring those who hadn’t made it.
- Monday, October 3, 2016

20 suicides a day

On 3 August of this year the US Department of Veterans Affairs released its long-awaited report, Suicide Among Veterans and Other Americans 2001-2014. This report was the most comprehensive analysis of veteran suicide in our nation's history, examining more than 55 million veteran records from 1979 through 2014, from all 50 states as well as four territories.
- Monday, October 3, 2016

A devastation beyond belief

The bipolar boom continues. Once upon a time, children were taught religious parables and national myths that placed their lives in a larger context of meaning, as well as stories that taught the value of hard work (The Little Red Hen), foresight (The Three Little Pigs) and perseverance (The Little Engine That Could). They learned about the young Teddy Roosevelt overcoming his childhood asthma through strenuous exercise, and the young Abe Lincoln reading by the firelight and then walking miles to return books he had borrowed. Today tomes such as Brandon and the Bipolar Bear, Turbo Max, and My Bipolar Roller Coaster Feelings Book teach the little ones the importance of psychotropic medication compliance.
- Tuesday, August 2, 2016

A tale of two psychiatrists

In the field of juvenile bipolar disorder research, one name towers above all others--Joseph Biederman.
- Monday, August 1, 2016


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