Talk:David Shaffer

Possible Conflict-of-Interest declaration
I am employed as a Research Scientist by the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI), at the Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC). As part of my duties, I work as an editor in the Department of Psychiatry in CUMC. The text I am contributing is biographical material about faculty members in the Department, whom I may know personally, as they are my colleagues. The material consists of biographical facts contained in the profiles of faculty members who appear on the Department's website. Faculty members have reviewed and approved the content I am submitting.

The material does not express a point of view or an opinion with respect to the profiles of the faculty. Rather, as noted above, it consists only of facts about the faculty. Psychiatry777 (talk) 17:38, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Glowing exaggerations and falsehoods. Yeah, I'm sure they did "review and approve" this homage. Why not mention the total lack of evidence that Shaffer's money-making "instruments" have any effect whatsoever on already low youth suicide rates? Why not mention Shaffer's huge income from pharmaceutical industry sources? Why not mention TeenScreen's laughable 16% positive predictive value? GH-1959 (talk) 11:05, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Critical inquiry
I think this is an interesting starting point for a looking into the machinations of the psychiatric machine and its legally binding DSM. Obvious other entry points for inquiry are the DSM itself, but the NIMH-DISC is the application of it first as a paper algorithm, and then as a computer program. To make a long story short, the DISC is in the public domain as a product of the federal government, but apparently through Shaffer, this public domain information has been "annexed" (from Mumford) as a cash cow for Shaffer's associates at Columbia. There is absolutely no reason that it should not be available for free as a web site because it is simple math.--John Bessa (talk) 22:58, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

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It is improper to discuss a person's private medical condition in these pages. Iss246 (talk) 01:39, 18 March 2023 (UTC)