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Coz that's worked out soooooo well. :rolleyes: Does having a reputation, career, empire, income, etc, to protect count as inevitable, albeit unconscious, biases? Are these considered secondary gains? Just asking for a friend.

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Quackbusters!

I know they are openly promoting their connection to the mental health profession. But, to be honest, I am not sure this is a wise thread. Too easy to be portrayed as being anti-genuine mental health issues.

Thank you to all donors. :hug: Particularly like to thank Prof. Michael Sharpe for his outstanding efforts in encouraging people to fund David Tuller's work. Much appreciated, Prof. Sharpe. Very community minded of you. Please do make sure you come back again next funding campaign. :p

IMHO, the ability to predict outcomes is the core definition of mental competence and sanity. And, coincidentally, the core definition of science. The prizes go to those who can best predict outcomes.

Kafkaesque doesn't even come close. :grumpy:

Who decides what is an inappropriate or negative thought? This is the central claim/assumption I have trouble with in CBT. It is beyond dispute, IMHO, that psychs have demonstrated that they are not in a position to reliably make that call. Far too many wrong calls, with often disasterous...

Or at least of PEM.

Not surprising, as children have more muscle power than adults compared to body mass. Muscle power increases by cross sectional area (i.e. squared), but mass increases by volume (i.e. cubed). So muscle power increases at a slower rate than mass as the body grows. It is one of the major limits on...

Be nice if they used a repeat test protocol. Would give us a very clear picture of the prevalence of ME.

Excellent blog. Good explanations and effective therapies tend to sell themselves. If the concern becomes how to sell it, how to find the right 'marketing strategy', then you probably don't have a good explanation nor effective therapy. The degree to which marketing becomes the primary concern...

Sad that this might be what it takes though, isn't it.

When assessing the Australian situation, don't let Prof. Ian Hickie off the hook. He has flown under the accountability radar very successfully, but his influence and culpability from the early 1990s on, both in Australia and internationally, are substantial. For a start, he was a co-author on...

Conspicuous cruelty.

I think Prof Kristiansen is a fashion statement, who eventually will be replaced by another socially contagious fashion statement. Well, I tried, but you just can't parody these clowns. :yawn:

The political and public relations aspect is the one area we patients failed on (until recently). Not enough to be right, you also have to convince enough of the rest of the world to make it happen.

https://adrien-chopin.weebly.com/free-scientific-academic-articles.html

More troubling for Sharpe and co is the slopes of those lines from 52 weeks to 134 weeks (the post-treatment phase of the trial). Over that period the slopes for the APT & SMC arms are better on both primary outcome measures than for the CBT & GET arms. Meaning the rate of improvement in the...

A warning sign for snake-oil is its almost miraculous claim to cure a wide range of unrelated conditions. Like the Lightning Process, for example. I agree. It seems more an end result or outward expression of those two interacting factors. Might be useful as some kind of diagnostic marker, but...