It also says: "The concept of brainwashing is not generally accepted as a scientific term.[7][8]" I feel as if that makes it a less than ideal...
But even with Phil Parker and LP, within that there are claims that are based on science. It's not as if they're just talking about magic fair...
I'm not saying we shouldn't call out the problems with LP. But if someone is saying that they think that LP helped them recover, and someone else...
Looking at some of the comments on line, I feel like twitter is a really unhelpful format. eg: describing something as 'pseudoscience' without...
I think that here we see the problem of what often happens when 'pacing' becomes medicalised. IMO a lot of the controversy over pacing vs GET...
Based on what we've seen elsewhere, I'd expect the official investigation to find, regardless of what happened, that there's no real problem here...
To me, that feels like a positive interpretation of a negative sign. I think that we're facing a long and drawn out conflict that's going to end...
Something to look forward to. re 'more than 50 co-authors', sounds like there's something else fun coming too? We should expect more powerful...
Anyone know what this refers to?
I think that the potential problems with bias are largely similar for anecdotes of positive and negative effects, but that there are also...
At the same time, the problems with bias around recovery anecdotes are similar to the problems with anecdotes of harm. Saying that, there are...
Who forced Chalder & co to have that as the first sentence?!?!
re updating it, they say: Review Date: 2011 And: Perhaps the poor results from PACE reduced enthusiasm for an update? Ira Madan does not seem...
Maybe of relevance to some of the discussion here: a subreddit for neo-liberals had a brief discussion on the new NYmag piece on Long Covid and...
Anyone have any views on the forms of objective testing used? Would we expect these to be useful tests for the sorts of cognitive problems ME/CFS...
They always use the same lines to try to attack and dismiss those criticising work like PACE, because those are the most effective approaches for...
First of all I want to thank @Josefina for all the work that clearly went into the article, and drawing together a wide range of sources. I've...
I've not read the piece yet, but lots of papers use terms that they don't themselves define, and 'neoliberal' is a pretty widely used term. I...
There are the links between the wellcome trust and smc. Didn't the last couple of people running wellcome seem to have links to Wessely and some...
I don't think that's close to being true. Lots of people protest for all sorts of misguided reasons. That doesn't prove anything. This let those...
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