My views on disclosures of sexual misconduct within the skeptic/atheist community...

...and other pieces of writing critical of this community can be read at my other blog:

http://incorrectpleasures.blogspot.com.au/

Prof. Graham Burrows media reports

[I have no idea what's the deal with the colours of this text - the technical side of this blog is as bunky as a Malaysian airline]

The list below of details of text and video media reports is a compilation of available and lost reports. The details of these media reports were sourced from the Blond Ambition political blog, the PsychCrime anti-psychiatry blog and from Google searches. This compilation was created as a record of the misconduct of this once-powerful figure in Australian psychiatry. Many video reports by Louise Milligan for Seven News appear to be no longer available, which is a pity as they are an important record of the standard of misconduct that is possible in Australia by a professor and a psychiatrist who enjoys the authority of being at the top of his or her profession (in terms of power and influence). I’m guessing 7 News just don’t care to archive their news reports in video. 

A whitewashing of records of misconduct of the medical profession in Australia is clear in the glowing and entirely positive obituary of Prof. Burrows that was published in 2016 by the Sydney Morning Herald, and the apparent fact that Burrows was still a professor at the time of his death. After reading the remarkably detailed and complete obituary in the Sydney Morning Herald lacking any attribution of authorship, I’ve come to the conclusion that it was probably written by the man himself before his death, or someone very close to him.

One website that still publishes a lot of very negative views of the late professor is a doctor rating website that appears to be based in the USA. The United States has the right to free speech and a free press enshrined in its constitution, the “first amendment”. We have no such thing here in Australia. Our constitution includes no guarantee of free speech or a free press. Journalism in Australia can be held to ransom by the legal might of wealthy individuals and corporations who are able to use our defamation laws and gag orders as protection from the publication or sharing of criticism or negative information. 

Graham Burrows obituaries, tributes and reviews

'Workaphile' professor had a 25-hour day. 
Sydney Morning Herald.
MARCH 16 2016
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/workaphile-professor-had-a-25hour-day-20160310-gnfcut.html

Other entirely positive obituaries and tributes from Australian media companies:

http://tributes.theage.com.au/obituaries/theage-au/obituary.aspx?pid=177253401

http://tributes.theage.com.au/obituaries/theage-au/obituary.aspx?pid=177253869

http://www.legacy.com/guestbooks/theage-au/graham-burrows-condolences/177253870?page=12

But the late prof did get a some very bad reviews from ex-patients at a US-based doctor review website:

RateMDs
Rate Dr. Graham Burrows, Deceased
https://www.ratemds.com/doctor-ratings/105216/Dr-Graham-Burrows-Melbourne-VIC.html

List of media reports in chronological order

Sack academic for giving evidence in Arthur Freeman case, says senator Julian McGauran.
AAP
News.com.au
MAY 11, 2011
http://www.news.com.au/national/sack-academic-for-giving-evidence-in-arthur-freeman-case-senator/news-story/39ac8f576d0bee363cc1cace81158d86
[Report exists in Dec. 2017]

Calls to sack Freeman trial psychiatrist.
ABC News
MAY 11, 2011
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-05-11/calls-to-sack-freeman-trial-psychiatrist/2710700
[Report exists in Dec. 2017]

Medical scandal uncovered.
Louise Milligan
Seven News
June 20th 2011
http://au.news.yahoo.com/video/vic/watch/25670720/

More complaints against Burrows.
Louise Milligan
Seven News.
June 21st 2011
http://au.news.yahoo.com/video/vic/watch/25693691/
http://au.news.yahoo.com/video/vic/watch/25670720/

Burrows Denies any Wrongdoing.
June 22nd 2011
http://au.news.yahoo.com/video/vic/watch/25670720/
[Existence of report verified using Wayback Machine but video not found]

7News exposes medical scandal. 
Yahoo7 
June 22nd 2011
https://au.news.yahoo.com/vic/a/9690341/7news-exposes-medical-scandal/
[Report still exists at this location and archived at Wayback Machine]

Call for Burrows Investigation.
June 23rd
http://au.news.yahoo.com/video/vic/watch/25670720/
[Video report page at 7 News Melbourne but not video itself archived by Wayback Machine]

Mental health charity probe.
Grant McArthur
Herald Sun.
December 23rd 2011
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/mental-health-charity-probe/story-fn7x8me2-1226228855616
[Report still exists at this location but not archived at Wayback Machine]

Burrows patient used as "guinea pig".
Louise Milligan
7News.
January 12th 2012
http://au.news.yahoo.com/video/sa/watch/27859872/248154/
http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/burrows-patient-used-as-guinea-pig-27859874.html#crsl=%252Fvideo%252Fworld-15749633%252Fburrows-patient-used-as-guinea-pig-27859874.html

Class action against Burrows.
Louise Milligan
7News (Melbourne)
January 15th 2012
http://au.news.yahoo.com/video/vic/-/watch/27901358/class-action-against-burrows/
http://au.news.yahoo.com/video/vic/watch/27901358/

1984 was supposed to be a work of fiction - not a policy!

http://www.couriermail.com.au/lifestyle/health/privacy-groups-outraged-over-failure-to-inform-aussies-about-a-new-government-health-record/news-story/5d1c7f980de28966d3ede764ae875cb6

Where's our free speech? Where are our consumer rights?

Paul Howes, what a piece of..........

"Faceless man" Paul Howes, one of the arseholes of the ALP/union clique who stole a Prime Minister from the nation in his first term of office and thus condemned his pals to a return to the political wilderness, always was and always will be a creep, and it appears he is a creep in every aspect of his life, a skid-mark on the fabric of Australian society. 
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/private-sydney/paul-howes-drama-takes-centre-stage-at-opera-house-ball-20141015-116h5t.html

Labor, Liberal; all members of the same elite social sets

http://redflag.org.au/article/don%E2%80%99t-worry-we%E2%80%99re-all-good-friends-here

Frightening report on the ABC about dangers of anti-psychotic drug Seroquel

Concerns grow over top-selling drug's side effects. 7.30.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 27/11/2013
Reporter: Louise Milligan
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2013/s3900419.htm

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-27/growing-concerns-over-side-effects-of-seroquel/5120554

"....doctors are warning the drug is being massively overprescribed and the potentially dangerous side-effects are being ignored."

This is a shocking and important report. Nice work Louise. 

The drug Quetiapine (brand name Seroquel) stands out among other anti-psychotic drugs for two reasons: the astronomical increase in the rate of prescription of this drug in the last ten years in Australia far outstrips the rates of prescription of other anti-psychotic drugs, and the measured rate of cases of serious harm to patients from side-effects of the drug also far outstrip those of other anti-psychotic drugs. As if that is crazy enough, consider the fact that that this drug is also prescribed for depression even though it comes with an increased risk of suicide compared to other anti-psychotic drugs. Something must be seriously wrong with medicine in Australia when increased potential for harm sit alongside spectacular prescriber popularity. 

Grave concerns about side effects are by no means the only reason why this drug has been hitting the headlines in the last few years. Readers of this blog might recall that the celebrity psychiatrist Prof. Patrick McGorry tried to trial this drug on patients thought to be at risk of developing psychosis in 2011 in a trial that was known as the NEURAPRO-Q study, but that study was closed down following objections from McGorry’s international peers. The drug has also been the subject of a deluge of litigation in the United States, which should surprise no one. So why does this drug continue to elicit such huge popularity with Australian doctors, and is even sought after by some as a drug of abuse? I think there’s no over-estimating the power of marketing and there’s no under-estimating the common sense of my fellow Australians. 

Please! More truth and less lies about Sri Lanka, asylum-seekers and the Tamil People

It's a disgrace that the Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting (CHOGM) 2013 is scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka, with its long, ongoing and deplorable record of serious and large-scale human rights abuses. If you don't approve of this, now is the time to make your opposition heard.

http://www.change.org/petitions/prime-minister-reconsider-chogm-2013-in-sri-lanka

http://www.amnesty.org.au/action/action/33166

Lili's political thought for the day

What's the deal with Joe Hockey, all sweating and pale? Regardless of politics, I hope it's just a passing and minor thing.

Lili's political thought of the day

Doesn't Tanya Plibersek look happy as one of the nodding heads behind Rudd at today's press conference? Loving working for Rudd?

Lili laughs

Gina Rinehart sings Sweet Child O'Mines on Wednesday Night Fever #WNF

McGorry to feature on ABC's show One Plus One?

I saw a promo on ABCTV about an upcoming special on the show One Plus One with Jane Hutcheon featuring Prof. Patrick McGorry. I think they were seeking people for the audience or a forum. Unfortunately I can't find anything at the ABC's website about this to verify the details. 
http://www.abc.net.au/news/abcnews24/programs/one-plus-one/ 

While I would never advocate that anyone personally bother the professor, I do hope that whatever this show is to be that it isn't a festival of back-slapping from a collection of associates and admirers. There are many elements of McGorry's work that deserve criticism, and there are many critics. I hope these perspectives will be well-represented in the upcoming show. 

Great to hear Martin Whitley on the radio

Are children over-diagnosed? Life Matters. ABC Radio National. 17 June 2013.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/overdiagnosed/4757096

New book by Dr Allen Frances

Dr Allen Frances has a new book out, titled
Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062229257
interviewed on Lateline:
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2013/s3763502.htm