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Looks terrible. Simon Wessely in conversation with Esther Crawley's subordinate Phil Hammond? I can only imagine the splurge of manipulative propaganda the audience will get to enjoy. I think NICE is a pretty broken institution.

It would be good if the fact it might time out was made clear to people at the start... I'm still in the pain over stupidly losing a post I was drafting yesterday.

I thought Dellingpole said he'd cured his CFS with some bizarre beathing technique? Now, after displaying his scientific expertise with bizarre climate change denial theories, he's moved on to stem cell treatment for Lyme disease? I only ever see his name when he's getting attention for talking...

Anyone can get access via scihub: http://sci-hub.tw/ I googled the article's title, got the DOI, then entered into sci hub for this link: Medically Unexplained Symptoms and the Diagnosis of Medical Child Abuse. Eichner M1. http://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/15265161.2018.1447047

Just thought I'd link to the Kanaan response to this for those interested in this paper, even thought I didn't think his response was interesting: Neurologists, Psychiatrists, and the Angry Patients They Share Richard A. A. Kanaan...

Looks like the debate will be early in the day: https://calendar.parliament.uk/calendar/Commons/All/2019/1/24/Daily edit: Actually, I'm really not at all clear what the above indicates about timing. I may have misread it. EDIT 2: Apparently Monaghan expects the debate to take place around 2pm.

Yes. This is such a difficult one though, and it's hard to know how much we should let legitimate concerns about prejudices stop us from making justified complaint. There's also the problem that the patients who are likely to consider these matters, and perhaps avoid making a complaint because...

Cochrane EIC David Tovey has written a response to the recent BMJ piece: https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.k5302/rr-7 I struggle to judge some of this stuff.

Oh sure - I certainly wasn't saying that people shouldn't criticise what VES has said, or that they shouldn't be much more critical than I've been. It just seemed like there was more heat to some of the criticism than I would have expected. I guess TiredSam did say that maybe he'd gone too far...

At the moment, the introduction of 'specialist services' could well do more harm than good. Of those being paid to run such service in the UK, how many have spoken out about the sort of problems we've seen from PACE? How many have just cashed their cheques while misleading patients about the...

I guess that we all need to make our judgements on the relative value of just VES's claims. For me, they're still of some value, and I can see that there are some legitimate reasons for not wanting to post a video like the one described on-line. There does seem to have been a long campaign...

There must be some way of challenging the SMC - they're such blatant bullshit artists, but in a position of real importance and presenting themselves as noble arbiters of what is reasonable.

Providing accurate information is valuable for helping people make informed judgements? I don't think that there needs to be any more to it than that. I guess that can be complicated by the fact that VES seems to be arguing for what she sees as a more pragmatic approach to these matters, and...

Thanks so much for that @Michiel Tack - sounds like a pretty annoying report overall, but that the scandal around PACE may have forced in a few hints of reasons for positivity. I wonder where the Minister got their interpretation ("highly successful") of the report from? Could it be that the...

That's true, but these protocol deviations are still relevent to the Cochrane assessment of risk of bias, as Courtney pointed out: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD003200.pub7/detailed-comment/en?messageId=160462675

I don't know. If it is a hugely nasty attack on Wessely full of lies and threats then releasing in could 1) be unpleasant for Wessely and his family, 2) encourage the assumption that Wessely's critics are unreasonable and nasty, 3) spread lies and misinformation amongst patients who have good...

I just thought I'd see how the protocol changes were described on the PACE FAQ: (there now seems to only be an annoying link for this: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/wolfson/research-projects/current-projects/projects/#faq ) For their primary outcomes they say the change was : "before any data was...

If had a copy of it, I'd keep it. It could just be that whoever had it thought that it would be bad if it were circulated just to feed peoples' morbid curiosity?

I don't think that they have clearly said this - although they've implied it. This is what they said in their recovery paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3776285/ 'Before the analysis' is different to 'before data was unblinded'. In 2011(after the Lancet paper) patient...

Looks like Recovery Norge were promoting more junk-science. Norwegian journalists seem to love being provided with inspiring anecdotes!