I presume you mean the FINE trial. (Yes, it was a nice, fine trial wasn't it!)
I saw a graph of this once with two curves. One curve was the number of people in mental hospitals, the other the number in prisons, versus time....
Pity his responses were so shallow.
Wow. I had no idea I was just reflecting Popper. Had only known the name as being connected with philosophy of science but just felt compelled to...
There is a big difference though. Progress in quantum mechanics looks like: strange phenomenon observed; many theories postulated to explain;...
But this would only happen if people don't recover. So it could be interpreted as evidence of very low rate of recovery.
It seems to me that the response to point 3 regarding subjective measures in unblinded trials focussed only on the subjective measures and did not...
I think that's a dangerous way to think and has something of the 'appeal to authority' logical fallacy about it. Many years ago when I had only...
I get the impression that there is no place in the Cochrane structure for an illness where so little is really known about it's cause.
Was the first an extended abstract from a conference proceedings while the latest is the actual paper with all the details?
I have often wondered this. The aspect that I want to see explained in a working model is why do I get this achy leg muscle feeling from purely...
Couldn't this simply reflect the long time taken to get a diagnosis, especially in gradual onset cases? I suspect that, if sudden and gradual...
I would think the speed measuring code (eg, javascript) would run locally on your device and not be affected by internet speed.
I presume the latest guidelines are these from 2002 https://www.mja.com.au/system/files/issues/cfs2_2.pdf I have only quickly skimmed them but...
I haven't looked but my recollection is that the current guidelines are not very good. If "update" means start again without the CBT/GET...
I think that's called gaslighting.
Reading that quote from the TMG minutes again, I was struck by If patients are reasonably active doesn't that suggest a theory of deconditioning...
I think magicians (i.e., professional cold readers, etc) should form the control group if the research was to be meaningful.
The abstract sounds like they compared a hypothetical person with tiredness symptoms and no diagnosis to one with tiredness symptoms and a CFS...
In the conclusion: Nice to see the PACE trial used as an established example of poor science in the field of psychosomatic medicine.
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