Wellcome is really linked to the SMC, Farrar is matey with the usual sorts (Wessely, etc). Hard to know much about Farrar's personal views. Here...
Jeremy Farrar moving from Wellcome to become science chief at the WHO:...
This was in the COI section of the Lancet commentary on NICE's ME/CFS guidelines - there was a discussion of this at the time:
Weren't Wessley, PACE etc involved in some PR media push over a past Christmas? I guess it's a time where there are predictably less news stories...
I was expecting them to have drawn in people like Guyatt. But it seems likely that there are going to be multiple prongs to this.
Oh right, so this looks to be just part of a co-ordinated response with the IPD reviews: [MEDIA]
Author list actually looks less imposing than I expected: [MEDIA] I suspect that there will be a lot of people outside of this list promoting...
Hmmm. I feel a bit worried about that assumption.
To varying degrees - they've toned down a lot of their more over-confident statements about their work. I think that they realised they were...
I really disagree. I don't know enough about FND or the ways it could be treated to make a really informed comment, but I think that dismissing...
It's done as part of an appealing narrative. And it can feel sophisticated to people who don't know much about it. That seems to be what people...
Archive link that avoids giving them clicks: https://archive.vn/L471V Looks like more persuasive propaganda than some people might want to give...
'Control' seems closer to the truth than what Sean was replying to though: For a topic few journalists have detailed knowledge of, an...
Absolutely. I worry that some patients underestimate the extent to which communication like this shapes the way medicine works.
Thanks. I get the impression this is quite an influential site - I keep meaning to follow them more than I do.
Do we? Do we have any evidence he even read the old Cochrane review? From what I've seen, it seems he can make some quite bold claims more on the...
I'd agree that their are aspects of LP that could be viewed as harmful in and of themselves. That does reflect a particular value system though....
No worries - I should have been more clear.
I'm suggesting that this slur will seem similar to you to how accusations of 'brainwashing' will seem to those who think that the LP has been/may...
When making claims of brainwashing, whose testimonies are to be trusted? edited to clarify that the following is intended as an example of how...
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