Guest
Andrew Scull
Emeritus professor of sociology, UC San Diego
Real Alpha has cut one moment of Andrew Scull (Emeritus professor of sociology, UC San Diego) talking, from an interview on Lex Fridman Podcast published Sep 17, 2026.
What Andrew Scull said
Antidepressants beat placebo but often not by a meaningful margin
“They beat placebo in a statistically significant margin, but not necessarily in a clinically significant margin.”
Andrew Scull3:22:13
The episode
Lex Fridman PodcastPsychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung | Lex Fridman Podcast #502
Andrew Scull · Historian of Psychiatry
3:22:10of 3:36:56 · Sep 17
