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    Spanish elites rally in support of data manipulation (Jan 2019) by Leonid Schneider, For Better Science

    He is. He has written about PACE before, for instance: PACE trial and other clinical data sharing: patient privacy concerns and parasite paranoia Since the PACE study came out in 2011, the patients, but also a number of academic scientists, remained unconvinced of the published therapy...
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    Trial By Error: Some Thoughts About an Upcoming Article

    Another blog post about the same topic, so I'll post it in this thread: Trial By Error: The Reporter's Questions for Professor Racaniello The reporter writing the story I posted about earlier also contacted Professor Racaniello. Here are the questions asked, and his answers
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    Trial By Error: Some Thoughts About an Upcoming Article

    It does look a bit worrying but I do have a hope that things may actually be turning (ok, I've said that for 20 years, but one day it'll be right). There IS more general awareness about what a dreadful disease ME is and what desperate situation patients are in. Very little research has been...
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    Petition against National Competence center for CFS/ME with BPS approach in Norway - anyone can sign

    :balloons::balloons:The petition has now got over 7 000 signatures!!:balloons::balloons: Original link to petition in Norwegian https://www.underskrift.no/vis/7358/ English translation of petition details and instructions on how to sign here...
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    UK Parliamentary debate today - Thursday 24th January 2019

    ETA: hmm... seems the whole post from MP Carol Monaghan wasn't included. It reads: Carol Monaghan MP leading the House of Commons debate on ME treatment️ WATCH: My speech to lead the House of Commons debate on ME treatment I thank all MPs who sponsored and spoke during the debate, and the the...
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    Petition against National Competence center for CFS/ME with BPS approach in Norway - anyone can sign

    Nina E. Steinkopf has a short reply in the same newspaper. Vi krever å bli hørt google translation: We demand to be heard The Competence Service mixes ME with other conditions and bases its recommendations on low quality research. Furthermore, the management of the Competence Service recommends...
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    Swedish Central Ethics Review Board finds Macchiarini guilty of misconduct, requests retraction of 6

    And the mess continues. According to a new book about the Macchiarini scandal, the documentation for its investigation has vanished.. Universitetsavisa: Dokumentasjonen til Macchiarini-granskningen har forsvunnet Google translation: The documentation for the Macchiarini investigation has...
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    A 4-day mindfulness-based cognitive behavioural intervention program for CFS/ME. An open study, with one-year follow-up, 2018, Stubhaug et al

    Here's a google translation: ToTo Neuroimmunologisk Kurativ Behandling: På ME-fronten: Bjarte Stubhaug med grovt forskningsetisk overtramp google translation: At the ME-frontline: Bjarte Stubhaug with severe research ethical oversteps Not in my wildest imagination, had I thought that...
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    David Tuller: Trial By Error: Steve Brine's Troubling Claim in Parliamentary Debate on ME

    Update on the blog Trial By Error: Steve Brine's Troubling Claim in Parliamentary Debate on ME Update on January 29: I love how patients keep me on my toes. A savvy reader pointed out to me today that even members of the GET/CBT ideological brigades have dropped the notion that attributing...
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    A 4-day mindfulness-based cognitive behavioural intervention program for CFS/ME. An open study, with one-year follow-up, 2018, Stubhaug et al

    Here's a direct link to the blog post at Questioning Answers A 4-Day Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioral Intervention Program for CFS/ME" but.. I did um-and-ah about whether I should blog about the findings reported by Bjarte Stubhaug and colleagues [1] observing that "a brief, concentrated...
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    David Tuller: Trial By Error: Steve Brine's Troubling Claim in Parliamentary Debate on ME

    New blog post from David Tuller: My Letter to Professor Chew-Graham About METRIC Earlier this evening, I sent the following e-mail to Carolyn Crew-Graham, a professor of general practice research at Keele University. Professor Chew-Graham is the lead author of METRIC, the atrocious online...
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    David Tuller: Trial By Error: Steve Brine's Troubling Claim in Parliamentary Debate on ME

    Steve Brine's Troubling Claim in Parliamentary Debate on ME I want to focus on a point Brine made regarding the importance of including updated information about ME in medical education—one of the key planks in the motion passed by unanimous voice vote on Thursday.
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    A general thread on the PACE trial!

    Yes, I suppose you're right it could have gone either way.
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    A general thread on the PACE trial!

    I remember this, that it was said BBC was working on a documentary. Does anyone know more about whether it was stopped and how/why? (Perhaps it has already been discussed in this thread, I haven't been able to read all the posts)
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    Petition against National Competence center for CFS/ME with BPS approach in Norway - anyone can sign

    The petition's initiator, Nina E. Steinkopf, has written a reply as an open letter on her blog. Forakten for det mest sårbare pasientene google translation The contempt for the most vulnerable patients Finally, I would like to thank everyone of you for the debate in BT. Rarely has the disdain...
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    UK Parliamentary debate today - Thursday 24th January 2019

    Monaghan: If graded exercise was a drug, it would have lost its licence
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    Petition against National Competence center for CFS/ME with BPS approach in Norway - anyone can sign

    Agree. It's surprisingly emotional, patronising and aggressive.
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    Petition against National Competence center for CFS/ME with BPS approach in Norway - anyone can sign

    I think this will get uglier before it gets better. But for their own sake, as health care personell putting their name on something so vile towards patients - why not instead at least try to pretend you have the patients best interest in mind? Of course, it's better for us, when these...
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    frontiers in Pediatrics: Initiating Care of a patient with ME/CFS - Lapp - 2019

    Initiating Care of a Patient with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) This paper introduces the primary care physician to the unique and challenging aspects of initially diagnosing and managing a complex condition for which there are a plethora of symptoms, few physical...
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