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The legitimate role of snark in scientific debate. Discuss. :sneaky:

Okay, so they showed that clinicians can be more effectively trained to rote learn the unproven hypothetical model. And the benefit to patients of that is...? role-play illustrating empathic validation techniques Yeah, that's how empathy works and is learned. :rolleyes:

I wonder if the subjects (patients and controls) all being psychology students was a significant uncontrolled variable?

...with a meta-analysis from 14 RCTs of telerehabilitation demonstrating statistically significant improvements... But not clinically significant? And on what outcome measures?

Nice work, authors. Thanks. :thumbup: I do like brevity. :) Also, good you got in a mention of inadequate statistical power. That is an important limitation of the Walitt paper. Thank you. It is a disgrace that patients have to do the medical profession's dirty work for it, and all too...

IIRC, it is more than one person, and the name is just a nom de plume.

No. These guys are some of the best propagandists and political manipulators in the business. How else have they managed to hang on for so long, with so little evidence? That was no accident.

I agree it isn't just for AI. They are just generally flooding the whole zone with whatever shit they can. Influencing AI is just a new part of the zone these days, along with social media. Pretty sure they have the ongoing update process for the Australian Guidelines firmly in their sights...

You might need to explain the joke to those unfamiliar with musical notation. (Assuming it is supposed to be a joke.)

@Tao Fogger Love your avatar. :emoji_grin:

This.

They are not going to be able to arbitrarily re-define their way out of the deep slippery hole they have spent decades on furiously digging themselves into.

'We need to standardise our propaganda.' :thumbsdown:

I am not going to waste my time reading yet another piece of recycled crap. But I will bet he did not address the matter of adequately distinguishing correlation v. causation, of cause v. consequence. Once again this horseshit tells us far more about what is going on in the author's psyche than...

Anybody who thinks a tiny amount of a chemical cannot have much effect on your mind and body should try 25 micrograms of pure LSD and a tenth of a microgram of lovely fresh warm polonium 210.

One of the very few useful management tools for me is not having to adhere to a fixed sleep cycle. Contrary to the psycho-behavioural view of 'sleep hygiene', being able to rest/nap/sleep whenever I need to is pretty helpful – indeed necessary. My sleep pattern is fairly stable now days and of...

Yep. Independent of whether it has long-term benefits for the underlying disease process*, it is still worth it for the short-term benefits of simply not feeling as shitty now, and usually, as that patient gets better at it over time, being able to function at least somewhat better at practical...

Not sure that is correct. (Not a criticism of biomedicine, as such. More a comment on them never being given a solid run at doing so.)

The real story here, of course, is how unbelievably restrained the victims are under some of the most dishonest and cruel, and sometimes lifelong, provocations and abuses that can be dished out by medical authorities and the broader governance system that benefits from it and protects them from...

Same old shit. Very slightly different packaging.