Is Getting an Abortion a Threat to Women’s Mental Health?
My opening moves in a still-ongoing 12 year effort to get a flawed meta-analysis from American anti-abortionists in the British Journal of Psychiatry retracted.
[Screenshot from my FB memories of November 2011]
I stopped my Skeptical Sleuth blogging at Psychology Today (PT) when whoever runs the website started requiring pre-approval of my titles and subtitles to avoid my offending pharmaceutical companies. I still have some gems published there, although PT no longer promotes them and comments have been deleted. Among these PT blog posts are a series of three 2011 articles orchestrating my campaign against an extremely flawed meta-analysis published in the British Journal of Psychiatry by an American anti-abortionist with a political agenda. The three posts remain nearly intact on that magazine’s webpage, except for a few outdated and broken links.
I planned to repost the series on Substack at some point with an update. The articles have a contemporary relevance in terms of the inexplicable resistance of Professor Peter Tyrer, editor of a top British psychiatry journal to correct egregious mistakes. There was also the unanswered question ab…