Are you saying that that 40% still remain diagnosed with ME/CFS? Or that the clinics then recognise this and rediagnose?
I think one of SW's skills is that he maybe knows better than MS et. al. when to keep his head down.
Was it necessarily the same employment? Some of those might well have had to take up less demanding work.
And even that 15% were nothing like true benefits, given based on subjective outcomes in unblinded trial. Edit: X-posted with @Jonathan Edwards.
No. I think I may just be getting myself confused.
I don't think it is of great import anyway, was just being pernickety. But the figure of 96% who did not get infected, was determined using the...
So I understand. "(number that did not get infected)" ... was that identified by some mean other than the test method whose results are being...
It's as if science passed Sharpe and Co. by very many years ago, but they have never realised it, and never will. All very sad really.
Why would ethics committees be responsible for oversight to ensure good, unbiased trial methodology? Although trial methodology and trial ethics...
Yes, there is a serious lack of independent oversight. The establishment overseers are highly partisan, and lack the integrity and bottle needed...
Ditto.
Yes, this does have eerie echoes of other strange happenings, a year ago.
Yes. The processes I'm thinking of would be incredibly difficult to subvert though, and the consequences significant. More independence I suspect,...
Is there any notion of independent auditing of clinical trials, at various stages of their progress. Manufacturing, engineering, etc has all...
Quite. Moderate quality evidence ... for what?
Indeed some of the best testers are people who find ways of doing things to products no normal person would dream of doing to it. But if it can be...
I suppose if it were used to positively confirm that something does not work, then that might be valuable as evidence of it not working?
Yes, I do agree that the word "exercise" is readily misconstrued to mean whatever anyone wants it to mean, and its intended meaning can morph as...
Absolutely. Sensible pacing incorporates physical activity and exercise, strictly within the individual's limits. It is the way it is framed that...
I interpreted Rolls' quote as meaning "opens up a new line of investigation for otherwise-presumed psychosomatic illnesses". So if I understand...
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