Physician Larry S. Goldman wrote a critical review of the book in WebMD's "Medscape Today", claiming that Whitaker "is ready to throw the baby out with the bath water" because "Mad in America" fails to acknowledge any biological abnormalities in schizophrenia, while at the same conceding that Whitaker's argument is correct in the sense that the true causes of schizophrenia are not known. Goldman concludes that the "overheated style" of the book "tends to undermine some of its more important points, such as the unhealthy symbiosis between the US pharmaceutical industry and much of the psychiatric research community and the ever-present miserliness of public mental healthcare systems."