[gondramB]

>>2,000 news stories detailing violent acts — murders, suicides, school shootings — by individuals taking SSRIs.<<

My guess is that they are likely prescribed to a population more likely to do such things.

We’d also need to compare. How many total articles total?

The Google news archive shows 1.9 million articles with the word “murder” If a quarter of the population takes anti-depressants then 2,000 articles is very low, not high.

[FormerACLUmember]

Right you are. Here is IowaHawk’s brilliant “data extrapolation” on journalists:

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/01/notepads-of-sha.html

[the808bass]

My guess is that they are likely prescribed to a population more likely to do such things.

The actual website is one of the shoddiest things I've seen. If a person has any history of being on an SSRI and there's a violent act, they go on the list.

There's people who were arrested for violent acts before going on antidepressants who commit subsequent violent acts on antidepressants and they go on the list.

Winona Ryder's shoplifting - on the list.

A girl who was killed by child abuse in a "rebirthing" was on antidepressants. Never mind she was killed by someone not on antidepressants. She's on the list.

A girl who suffered from depression and also was a sleepwalker fell from the 8th story of a hotel. She's on the list.

Another girl is reported by the mother to have died "from a reaction to the antidepressant." No other information is given.

You get the idea.