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Just saw this on a French medical website (i don't know this site, so don't know about its quality and readership): Les pressions s’intensifient pour que la revue The Lancet réexamine l’essai PACE « entaché d’irrégularités » Article in French Google translate

Professor stops researching ME/CFS after intimidation (M. Sharpe) https://demonitor.kro-ncrv.nl/artikelen/hoogleraar-stopt-met-onderzoek-naar-mecvs-na-intimidaties Google translate...

He speaks about CFS around 12:30. "The nature of it? It genuinly remains obscur. We don't know. We know some of the things [...] like glandular fever can trigger this. We do know that psychological, social factors can affect the outcome, it's less popular but of course unfortunately people...

This paper (Cloning the clinician: A method for assessing illusory mental health 2003) explains what the Illusory mental health concept is. To sum up: It is based on the idea that when recalling the past memory of an early childhood event, some distress, that the patient is not aware of, can be...

Action for ME: The PACE trial and behavioural treatments for M.E. https://www.actionforme.org.uk/news/pace-trial-and-behavioural-treatments-for-me/ Edit: thread here

You can read here part of the pages dedicated to the PACE trial (from p132 to 140, p 138 is missing)...

Stop making these simplistic assumptions then. Can't you see you're hurting people while implying depression is just about thinking too much about your problem, hence it's all due to the sufferer's own weakness? Depression is a complex and life destroying condition, you're making a joke of all...

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/71D73CADE32C0D3D996DABEA3FCDBF57/S0033291718001873a.pdf/cumulative_effect_of_reporting_and_citation_biases_on_the_apparent_efficacy_of_treatments_the_case_of_depression.pdf

Trial By Error: Yet Another Appeal to The Lancet, With More On Board http://www.virology.ws/2018/07/10/trial-by-error-yet-another-appeal-to-the-lancet-with-more-on-board/

If you tagg after editing, I think it doesn't work, so tagging @dave30th another time just in case.

Hum, so do we have to wait for QMUL and the other academic centers to ask for retraction?

Genius.

Open Letter from Solve ME/CFS Initiative President and CEO to Forbes Magazine https://solvecfs.org/open-letter-from-solve-me-cfs-initiative-president-and-ceo-to-forbes-magazine/

OMG, this is an exercise in bad faith, nearly all their statements are contentious (going from half truths to blatant lies "There was no ‘outcome-switching’.") This remark is particularly laughable:

That's the real problem!

That's what I implied, it's a very ambiguous statement where Sharpe said he was representing the opinion of the average doctor, while remaining the good doctor not saying it. But at the same time, he is still propagating this view, exactly like Wessely saying that "nobody likes these patients".

Similar line to Sharpe's "undeserving sicks"

Are there desagreements or ambiguity about the diagnosis of RA? (genuine question)