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Notice that, according to this, school attendance data will be obtained "via child self-completed questionnaires". So, once again not using actual school records?

It seems the problem is that the phrase 'post exertional malaise' gets interpreted using plain English rather than being flagged as a medical term with a medical definition as Jonathan interprets it. It's like it needs an obviously Latin name which flags that it is not to be (mis)interpreted in...

Strange is an understatement. But unfortunately par for the course.

From the Sharpe et al 1992 paper referenced above: "Follow up of patients presenting with fatigue to an infectious diseases clinic" Michael Sharpe, Keith Hawton, Valerie Seagroatt, Geoffrey Pasvol, BMJ Vol. 305, 1992 Concluding paragraph: So were the prospective studies ever done reliably...

I'd love to know the earlist reference to this too. Was there ever a study that showed correlation which the BPS brigade then used to claim supported their causation beliefs or did it all come straight from their imagination?

For me, that link also has the real video of the story. Can you see the video from there or is it Australia only?

I thought that "old fashioned" was a poor choice of wording. It completely failed to get the point across. A doctor from the University saying the balance of evidence is on the side of GET/CBT vs a patient rep saying old fashioned just didn't get the point across. I realise they wanted a sound...

Good question for @Carolyn Wilshire.

I thought we already had a short word that covered it. Woo. From RationalWiki: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Woo

Until that broadcast, I used to have a fair bit of respect for Norman Swan since he comes across as so reasonable. But a medical journalist, whose career is all about bringing important medical stories to the public, not being interested in investigating this is just mindblowing.

In the comments section following the transcript of the interview at http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/healthreport/comparison-of-treatments-for-chronic-fatigue/2993296 I found this comment: I suspect this is what made me think it was Hooper.

For some reason I always thought this was a Malcolm Hooper et al document. I may be wrong and have no reference. ETA: See my next post for a reference

The clinic I go to charges $75 for a 15 minute appointment. The government rebate is $37 leaving a $38 gap. But because I have a pensioner concession card, my doctor bulk bills me so I pay nothing. I think the government rebate is a little higher since I have a concession card but he would...

I think Australia's system proves this point. Doctors get a basic payment from the government but are free to charge what they like, including so called "bulk billing" or accepting nothing more than the government payment. So where there is oversupply of doctors (eg. Sydney area) many doctors...

Yes, this is true. You are describing the harmonics that can appear when you pluck one string. The relative amplitude (or volume) of each harmonic determines the quality of the sound and is what is different between say plucking a piano string and a guitar string both tuned to the same note or...

Not sure I totally understand what you are getting at here. If you play one note on a piano you are basically plucking a string (ok 2 or 3 strings that maybe tuned slightly differently but let's ignore that for now). Plucking a string means we get the fundamental (lowest possible) frequency plus...

I've always been fascinated by the 12 note equal tempered system. The frequencies come from f = f0 x 2^(n/12) Where f0 is the base frequency and n is the number of the note in the scale counting from 0. So if f0 is the frequency of a C then n=12 gives the frequency of the next C to be double...

Yes, I wondered if that is what is going on in the post quoted above: since there was never a CBT + APT arm of PACE. Unless she took up the offer to have CBT after the APT arm was finished or vice-versa.

Thanks for the video @Graham. I wondered if it would have been clearer if you had overlaid a graphic of a normal distribution at 80 +/- 20 over the Bowling data when you talk about it at around 6:15, showing the difference between the distributions they kind of assumed and reality. It might...

Thanks.