This week on Science Weekly Alok Jha meets Dr Joanna Moncrieff from University College London to discuss her book The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Anti-psychotic Drugs.
Joanna believes her extensive survey of research into psychiatric treatments points to a flaw in the dominant clinical paradigm that mental illness can be treated like any other illness – with drugs.
Alok is also joined by Observer Tech Monthly commissioning editor Nicola Davis and Observer science editor Robin McKie to discuss this week's science news, including a frustrating day at the lab for scientists hunting dark matter; a look at the complex, controversial legacy of Fritz Haber's discovery of a way to synthesise ammonia early in the 20th century; the problem posed by unpublished clinical trial data; and new evidence of the link between bats and the 2002 outbreak of the Sars virus.
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