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Only when we are not reminded by somebody else mentioning chocolate...

Lancet is calling for GMC resignations Patients are calling for Lancet resignations. :p

They dropped actometers for outcomes very early on (after having collected actometer baseline data), but they kept the other objective measures (step test, 6 minute walk distance, employment, welfare use). However, even the objective measures they did use were relegated to secondary outcomes...

And they then go on to offer an 'explanation' for them. Do these guys even read what they write? :facepalm:

Been on 20mg/daily Omeprazole for a few years now for severe chronic reflux. Killed that horrible problem stone cold dead, which is nice. :) Makes no difference to ME symptoms.

My donation is in two installments. One done, one to go. :thumbup:

Come on down, Sir Humphrey... And one demonstrating the outcome measurement technique favoured by the BPS school.

Exactly. I reserve the right to be an uncooperative bastard patient. :p

Let's just make it logical fallacies, and call it evens. :geek:

Hmm.

RIP, Bob. :(

Be an interesting exercise to see how many types of formal logical fallacies are used in defence of PACE.

An outstanding example of successful (and totally legitimate) activism. One for the instruction manual. :thumbup: :laugh: Is that how you won her over? Just wouldn't take no for an answer? :D

I certainly accept that we can influence to some degree how matter behaves, both internally and externally. But the degree of influence is always going to be absolutely constrained by the basic natural materials and processes we have to work with. Which still leaves a lot of room to move, I...

The intensity and frequency of name changes about a phenomenon is a good index of both how poorly understood it is, and how unwilling the namers are to admit that. Gives the illusion of insight and progress, helps keep empires and incomes intact, and hold reality at bay for a bit longer, but...

Already at 50%. Nice work, good people. :thumbup: One of my two donations done.

I think their love of the mind-over-matter fairytale is little more than desperately trying to deny their own human frailty and inevitable mortality. It is the most profound and destructive of all psychopathologies. The inability to accept the limits of the material body, the ultimate rule of...

Good to see you here, Suzy, and once again thank you for your extraordinary efforts over the years. :thumbup:

If they had simply said: That would have been more realistic. But they just can't resist spinning and smearing. Understandable, I guess, when you consider how much they stand to lose from the truth. But still completely unacceptable. They have been doing it for so long it is their default...

+1 @dave30th You are not morally responsible for this situation nor resolving it. Please make sure you take care of yourself. There is no advantage to anybody in burning yourself out. Perhaps take a decent holiday when you have returned home from this latest round of travel, to recharge your...