Dr. Kramer’s article was a response to Marcia Angell’s review of three books that have called into question the efficacy of psychiatric drugs, one of which was Robert Whitaker’s book Anatomy of an Epidemic, which won the 2010 Investigative Reporters and Editors Association Award for Best Investigative Journalism. Another was The Emperor’s New Drugs, by Irving Kirsch. The substance of Angell’s reviews was exposing the distortion of facts by academic psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies who have portrayed antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs as effective and safe, when much countervailing evidence exists to show that they are in fact, over the long term, ineffective and harmful.