Failure of the Government Officials on the project board i.e. overseeing the project (it was paid for by the UK Government - civil servants lead...
It occurs to me that folks like Fluge and Mella (this group) are reliable scientists - others are consistently unreliable.
Obviously checkout Jonathan's comments above. My impression is that this looks OK - 1. Research Strategy MRC expert group led to GWAS +ve ----...
Don't know much but yes there's a danger that the last Minister's agenda/interests aren't supported by the next incumbent/Minister. The APPG is...
Yea I assume that's why folks like Brian Hughes highlight that unblinded studies, with subjective outcome criteria (questionnaires), are...
I think I should have mentioned that a gene being "upregulated" basically means that it's making more of whatever protein it codes for. Basically,...
I agree fully - where's the evidence to support the statement? A thought occurs that Jose Montoya (before he exited stage) gave a presentation in...
Wouldn't that make it potentially significant i.e. if it were found in a high proportion of the study population?
10 out of 17 would appear to be a very high proportion. You'd need to think of the inclusion criteria, i.e. basis the 17 were selected, of course....
Surely there can't be many people who could keep pace (no pun intended) with this lot --- spin and spread misinformation to hide the truth......
To have a chance we need studies like GWAS [Chris Ponting] Sadly I have to agree although Fluge and Mella's rituximab trial showed that ME/CFS is...
Haven't read it but where do the antibodies come from - people who have been infected? If the antibodies work then that might be useful in...
We certainly are in the early days of finding out ---- my understanding is very limited but long lived plasma cells do produce antibodies and are...
Given that Trudie Chalder "is a Professor of Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy*" you'd expect some evidence to support this statement--- OK I'm...
"Many of the genes identified are linked to the key cellular mechanisms hypothesized to underpin ME/CFS, including vulnerabilities to ---...
I haven't read the review but in terms of identifying the underlying cause/solving the "medical mystery" GWAS aims to do that --- e.g. the (too)...
A very brief glance at the Results and Conclusions and the thought occurs that they perhaps they're trying to leave this "study" behind/forget...
Precisely sums up , thank you - "---we have no treatments---". We need research (such as GWAS) to identify the cause/underlying disease mechanism...
I certainly have doubts that vaccines are effective in terms of the individual but I'm content that they work at a group/population level i.e....
Yea surely as Government all you need to know is, is this intervention effective/should the Government fund it? Well there are a few consistent...
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