Antidepressants Impair Driving Ability? Really?

And let's also consider whether there may have been any bias present. Is it at all possible that the fact that the lead study author is a psychologist have anything to do with how the study was structured? Did they start out to prove that antidepressants were harmful in some way and ostensibly manage to prove it?

Unfortunately, a good number of people who saw those headlines will never bother to read the whole article. The consequences of someone reading that brief blurb, and nothing else, are potentially disastrous. What if this is the final straw for someone who was not thrilled about the side effects of their antidepressant? Hearing that antidepressants might also affect their safety, and that of others, may be enough to make them stop taking them.

The integrity of a study can be easily compromised. What you leave in and what you take out is very important. When you're considering doing a study or conducting research, you have to account for every single factor that may skew the results. I would say conservatively that I have been able to find holes in the methodology of at least half of the studies I've read. What this means to me is that you have to read articles about studies carefully and ask yourself if the data could have been skewed, or just take all studies you read about with a huge grain of salt.

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