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If they can just get this into the public domain more via Big brother or Love Island it will be even more accepted. TV programme psychologists would be the best medium to spread the truth on this. Perhaps a representative from Bristol university could go on This Morning with Phil and Holly and...

I actually thought I was dumb compared to scientists until I started comparing myself to scientists. Then I realised had I religious beliefs when it came to accepting 'science' from scientists blindly. Even if their conclusions were right I had no idea why I believed them so my belief in...

Paraplegic use of wheelchairs is ten times that of the average population. Just shows how deluded they are about their own activities.

My concern is the MUPS takeover whereby they could just categorise as many people as possible together and just have a 100 person group once a day with generic nonsense instead of doling it out individually. Perhaps they could just have Michael Jesus Mosely on a live link up and just have a...

"Can I have an appointment today for a chest infection". "We will call you back if 14 other people call in today with the same complaint and let you know".

That should be an alarm bell in itself. I think the conclusion of this study should be that Michael Mosely is Jesus.

Did the GP offer any other treatment during such time or carry out a more thorough investigation offer more advice etc? Perhaps along the lines of, "be positive think positive" unofficial CBT that could affect how someone could report on things? Did everyone stop all other meds or just some of...

Who cares about the effect, they only have to persuade themselves and politicians, hence CBT and GET. Both placebos but zero effect. Both form healthcare policy. No one knows the difference between a placebo and a placebo effect anyway. Why bother when you can just accept the magic exists.

Ah, if only their data matched up with those Time Out style reviews.

Correct. Maybe best to use the same study design to prove back pain placebo outcome in that case. The BBC will run with it as positive proof. That report seems to be mixing up three different studies with different designs. Its so bad that the BBC cannot make sense of a simple claim and know...

People who are more aware and open to new experiences are more likely to be abducted by aliens.

Does this means they selected out back pain sufferers who responded to a placebo from other equally suffering back pain subjects? At what point were they declared the "most aware and open to new experiences", were they pre selected into a subject group while others where put into another...

Whats the point of the LP then?

Yes on this logic Steven Hawkins plays in goal for Manchester United.

This is such nonsense. Its down to the person making the claim to prove with evidence that a given treatment works. LP has never done so. How body and mind affect each other is irrelevant therefore until they themselves have some bloody proof of such. Its got fuck all to do with the fear of a...

He's going to get round to reading it after he reads the PACE trial.

Was there never any element once you were not a student and got into actual practice wherby you came across the attitude from seniors of "never mind all that stuff this is what is really going on? People in the thread are discussing whether there is a historical and current bias towards women by...

The seventies isn't that long ago and isnt it the case that often in medicine it takes a number of years for "new findings" to actually get through into practice. Someone once said to me that doctors can be in their sixties or even upto eighty years old practising stuff they learnt forty to...

So it could arise after the only three possible possibilities and also because at first a doc might just tell you you are mentally ill even though it was actually ME, the dustbin diagnosis you started of with has to still stand in your medical notes. You may get cancer after a physical illness...

This is so true and I am actually very annoyed with Charles Shepherd and his anecdotal personal comment about swimming and yoga. If you have ME you have a ceiling level of available energy for a range of activities. If you chose to do some swimming or yoga within that that's still bloody...