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We should remember that the AntiVax thing was certainly encouraged by a paper in the Lancet (Wakefields paper) which was defended by Horton who has also been key in publishing and defending the PACE trial.

It does under to FoI act.

We should remember that the Bristol Vice Chancellor has already been involved in putting pressure on Berkley to keep David Tuller quite. So they should be passing this issue to their senate as the governing body rather than someone who reports to the vice chancellor.

Often there may already be issues between the school and parents over attendance when a child is ill. We had real problems with a school who were not sympathetic. If a parent were to receive such a request with an undiagnosed child they may well feel forced to attend as the school could already...

The concern would be that the HRA have effectively authorized people to do dodgy trials as 'service evaluations' particularly for non pharma trials - but trials could be done with existing drugs this way!.

I've quickly skimmed the report and my thought is this is academics protecting academics and institutions but I suspect behind the scenes people know it is wrong and note of this gets taken. The British establishment can end up working this way and it is not a good way to operate.

Really they should be raising concerns about ethical permissions to the HRA at the highest level and getting them to clarify points such as is it acceptable to pilot service and do a service evaluation without ethical approval and what guidance would they give to ensure that this isn't a...

I wonder if there is an investigation via an FoI worth doing to see the times that the 'pilot clinical service' was running (i.e. was it only set up from the perceptive of a research project). To see who funded the pilot service (i.e. was it normal clinical funding or was it via a separate route...

Is your PhD programme part of one of the CDTs? I think one of the interesting problems is around how technology can be used to measure activity (including mental activity) and then look for trends over time to look for patterns in activity which could relate to PEM or try to use such patterns...

3G and even GPRS have advantages in the distance traveled. I thought there was something around emergency services requiring them particularly around the coast.

5G has an interesting use model in that it doesn't travel very far and is easily absorbed by walls etc. So it will require many more mini base stations and people are talking about 5g base stations within buildings (or even multiple). Its also very high bandwidth so there are plans to push...

We did a RCT on the need for water. Participants were divided at random into a water or no water group. Those in the water group showed little change. The no water group had a high drop out rate with a high rate of non-compliance for those who remained.

Crawley used the Cochrane review to defend one of her trials including GET to the ethics committee when some patients complained about safety. She quoted the number analyzed figure for the whole Cochrane meta analysis even though there was limited harms reporting from most trials.

Off hand there are two things of importance. The first is where we have large datasets from which data scientists spend a lot of time pulling out information and trends can we make that quicker and easier and allow people without technical skills in data manipulation to see the information. The...

It is a different department - this is from the computer science. Universities are not very joined up institutions so different research groups can have very different views and ideas (and even compete!). Look at Oxford where Sharpe is but also Karl Morton who is doing very good research. I...

In general terms data visualization is becoming a big reseach topic as we collect more and more data it is hard to present it in ways that are easy for people to understand and pick out useful information or judge trends. Often it is about presenting high dimentional data in ways that people can...

I think this is a group who are studying how people interact with technologies and the different interaction styles that work for people with different abilities. Its an important area of work in terms of getting new styles and designs of how people work with computer systems and how this can...

Given the table in Trish's message where responders B12 levels increased from 379 to 1445 but the non-responders increase is a lot less 265 -> 395; I was wondering if the difference in the amount raise was interesting and particularly why it would be small in the non-responder group. Of course...

I think Jason's group are one of the few to look at how to operationalize criteria whether in a clinical or research setting. Its a real issue with many of the criteria that it is easy to list symptoms but much harder for a doctor is know how to use the criteria and what the symptom criteria are...

They are a member https://www.s4me.info/members/action-for-m-e.819/ You can tag them @Action for M.E. But they do not come up in the suggestions for search (or user mentions/tags) since they have not logged in for 6 months and so the forum software ignores them. You can search for them but...