On October 10, I wrote the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Psychiatry, Ned Kalin, M.D., informing him of this petition to retract the November 2006 STAR*D study that falsely told of a 67% remission rate, which has now been signed by more than 1800 people. He has not responded to our email.

As I wrote in a blog published today on Mad in America, this non-response speaks volumes. The American Journal of Psychiatry is not going to retract its study. Nor, it appears, is it even going to acknowledge that a re-analysis of patient-level data by Ed Pigott and colleagues revealed the true remission rate to be 35%. There is no mention of Pigott's study on the AJP website. 

You can read in the MIA blog on how this "non-response" does not comply with recommendations by the  International Committee on Medical Journal Ethics on how journal editors should respond to concerns raised about scientific misconduct.

Anyone who wishes to write the editors at the American Journal of Psychiatry directly, urging that the November 2006 article be retracted, can do so at ajp@psych.org.