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Yeah - I'd be amazed if the complaint to the charity commission went anywhere. I get the impression that they're more there for fraud from chiarities, rather than just incompetence.

A lot of that referred to matters I'm not aware of the details of (eg the survey they were looking at). tbh I have such a poor understanding of the politics around funding of services that I suspect I missed a lot. I thought those documents show how difficult it will be to argue for specialist...

Scandal: Well-meaning person replies to tweet!

It looks like it was just a temporary thing. It's back up for me now.

Who from here is going to apply!

How likely is it that teenagers will just rip the piss out of this stuff? Have British teenagers really lost that much cynicism in the decades since I was at school?

I'd wanted to double check some things in this reply, but found that the whole Cochrane website was down. Maybe the board read this, realised that they were rubbish, and so just pulled the plug? "We're off."

I'm struggling to keep up with all the recent reading! Interesting Sharpe seemed to have these e-mails ready to go. Again, he seems to be unable to engage with the details of the critiques made of his work. I got the impression that the HRA's letter was cynically written to try to help the...

One reason why it's often hard to criticise Wessely for what he's said about ME/CFS is that he tends to write in a way which creates a narrativ for reader, but just by him selectively reporting what he claims others have said, rather than explicitly giving his own views.

I can gloss over the evasive non-responses of these politicians, and forget that it's reasonable to expect far more from them. My standards are now so low it's hard for me to ever be outraged!

A different viewpoint in the comments section: https://bjgp.org/content/68/677/579/tab-e-letters

https://www.nhsjobs.com/job/UK/London/London/Tavistock_Portman_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Psychological_Therapies/Psychological_Therapies-v1550923 This looks like a service for discouraging people to go to the doctors. Maybe there's some value for that if some people end up using a lot of resources...

Guido Fawkes isn't known as the most impartial judge of the evidence either. Blanchflower criticising the premature introduction of the work programme doesn't seem unreasonable to me. It looks like Blanchflower is just trying to work as a propogandist re PACE because he's old mates with Peter...

Hold on - people are missing out my second sentence! The idea that positive cognitions cause improved prognosis has been debunked by research that showed the association was a result of patients being able to make an informed judgement about their prognosis. ie some patients with cancer have...

Surprised to see Trish Groves promoting this. Shows that Bastian is able to reach people that would normally reject us out of hand.

It could be that the illness model is correct but the therapists are incompetent! If deconditioning was a key factor in the perpetuation of CFS I think it's reasonable to expect much better results for GET. The cognitive models all seem more amorphous and harder to say anything much about. I...

People with cancer who have more positive cognitions about prognosis have better survival rates. That's not because of the remarkable power of the mind though, it's because peoples' beliefs are often influenced by reasonable judgements about their situation. If someone knows that they've just...

I remember someone drawing my attention to it ages back around when I'd had some discussion with Chapman on PR, but I think it was an old tweet and he went on to delete all his old tweets. Maybe I shouldn't mention it now it has gone.

Okay... sounds like the early acknowledgement of uncertainty was not much of a mitigating factor.

If it's a not very good article then at least it starts by emphasising widespread uncertainty.