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Yes, well crafted.

I would be pretty sceptical about claims about reactivation of EBV based on antibody tests. This is an issue that has been knocking around for decades and I think the conclusion has been that individual early antigen or IgM test results tell us little. I think to be convincing we would need to...

I don't think that is realistic. People die from Covid regularly, and often from hypoxia. Hypoxia will lead to brain ischaemia with an inflammatory reaction. The finding seem to me too banal to even bother with. Researchers seem to have completely lost their bearings in terms of basic...

This looks like meaningless hype to me. Why don't they give us some meaningful background to the cases? Since when were single nucleus transcriptomes useful in this sort of situation and so on. This looks like a group of people with very expensive equipment who have no idea what the results of...

This really is a weird and ignorant statement from Fiona. My understanding of pacing is that you work within your capacity. If you discover, as I did after EBV at a point in time, that your capacity seems to be much as it used to be then surely pacing does not entail perpetuating disability...

Well that is no problem to anyone other than those of you who have a vested interest in such treatments Mr Kennair. If we have no particular reason to think they would work, why offer them?

I was trying to work out what it was - and you beat me to it! A BiMSCID no less.

Editorials are routinely 'commissioned' without any payment though. I have been asked to do several. It may be that Newman did this for free because it helps her publicise herself.

I hadn't thought about this before but it seems odd that a freelance journalist should be writing for the BMJ. Traditionally medical journals have taken material submitted by doctors and scientists without payment. More recently authors have often had to pay to publish. Editorial pieces were...

If I remember rightly Melanie Newman is a journalist with no real understanding of the science who has a strongly held belief in the mind influencing the body. I think she has some experiences of her own that she believes prove this. She sees herself as a patient advocate but is out of her...

My understandings that the level of security was part of a project with funding and collaboration by NIH. I don't think the finger is pointing at China here. It is much closer home. Making bad mistakes with viruses seems to be a fairly widespread aspect of virology. The ongoing legal case over...

The slightly disappointing thing is that it might seem that one could use studies like this to show that if you design your study badly enough you can get amazing results with CBT for anything, but sadly the results are rather short of amazing.:(

To be honest I do not see any hype here. If anything I see people protecting research interests. Dr Racaniello may know the Wuhan lab director but that isn't relevant to the facts. We know that they were not using maximum security and I do not think it is necessary to suggest that Covid-19 was...

This is the medical journal of the Australian RoyalCollege of Physicians.In the blurb it says: The Journal also plays a major role in continuing medical education through review articles relevant to physician education. The journal exists to oil the wheels of physicians careers, nothing else...

Worth remembering that the first author is a newly qualified doctor doing a master's degree. This is not a paper. It is an essay for filling the CV. Do not expect it to be saying anything informed.

No, I don't see any indication that they think that. They are studying the effects of focusing on control or action on tremor. Such effects are basic to diagnosis all sorts of tremor and known to all medical students. The intention tremor of cerebellar disease only appears with attempted...

I thought you were serious- such good idea, although I was a bit shocked you admitted to it. But seriously, names for this bias: something like 'psychosocial bias'? or 'cognitive behavioural bias'? or even 'cognitive manipulation bias'? Or something more allegorical like 'Animal Farm bias'...

I agree that this is another level of bias that does not appear to be taken into account. I am personally against any use of 'tools' though. It irrational and as long as it is considered OK the system will be manipulated. Using a tool works like this: 1. Gather reliable evidence for factors...

I think expectation bias is a useful term to cover a range of things including the problem addressed by this study. The patients were said to have as high expectations of APT as CBT or GET but once in the trial expectations would have been manipulated. I do agree that there is a sense that the...

The explanation:)