"The Emperor's New Drugs" an examination of the evidence for antidepressants

A colleague reports that there is an interesting series of articles in the new APA on-line journal Prevention and Treatment which discusses the evidence (or lack thereof) for the effectiveness of contemporary antidepressants:

Kirsch I, Moore TJ, Scoboria A, Nicholls SS. The Emperor's New Drugs: An Analysis of Antidepressant Medication Data Submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Prevention and Treatment. 2002;5.

The URL is http://journals.apa.org/prevention/volume5/toc-jul15-02.htm.

He also says that there also is an interesting article in the BMJ (the British Medical Journal, I think):

Kjaergard LL, Als-Nielsen B. Association between competing interests and authors' conclusions: epidemiological study of randomised clinical trials published in the BMJ. (BMJ. August 3, 2002;325(7358):249)

And an accompanying BMJ editorial entitled, "Western medicine: a confidence trick driven by the drug industry? BMJ. August 3, 2002;325(7358)"

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