It's been shown that antidepressants are no better clinically than placebos. The drug companies simply suppressed the trials that didn't yield the results they

It's been shown that antidepressants are no better clinically than placebos. The drug companies simply suppressed the trials that didn't yield the results they wanted and cherry-picked the ones that did in order to get FDA approval. This all came out a couple of years ago when a long-running Freedom of Information Act suit forced them to release all the trials. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/feb/26/mentalhealth.medicalresearch http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/feb/26/mentalhealth.m... Edit: I just remembered that I posted about this to HN back when the study came out: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123575 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123575. A commenter pointed out that the study was limited to SSRIs, the most widely used antidepressants.