On December 1, the STAR*D investigators published a letter-to-the-editor in the American Journal of Psychiatry that is meant to serve as a response to this petition calling for the retraction of the November 2006 article published in the journal. In their letter-to-the-editor, they admit no wrongdoing and instead falsely accuse Ed Pigott and colleagues--the researchers who have documented how the STAR*D investigators inflated their announced cumulative remission rate of 67% with violations of the protocol--with inventing "post hoc criteria" to wrongly report that the true remission rate, if the protocol had been followed, was 35%. 

Mad in America has published an in-depth article detailing how this accusation by the STAR*D investigators is easily shown to be dishonest. Pigott et all applied the STAR*D inclusion/exclusion criteria to do their analysis. They did not invent "post hoc criteria" for that purpose. Mad in America has published an in-depth report on their letter-to-the editor.