I'm sure there was a thread somewhere that collected images of press coverage... I can't find it now. There's this 2015 Telegraph one on PACE...
I hadn't realised Action for ME were so involved in this. What a disaster for patients they have been.
I'm hoping that everyone else will be sufficiently worried about this that their precautions mean I can ignore it. I'm doing my bit by so rarely...
That article is a concise example of the lazy way some people in medicine engage in the controversy around ME. So infuriating. The smug, the smug!
And it looked like they only had one trial with a minimal intervention control group, which had no significant differences either. I'd have been...
Even just via google translate, that seemed pretty damning, along with their failure to respond. Would we be able to get a translation of this...
Yeah, that doesn't sound convincing as a 'real' reason to me. I wonder if their concern about too many PubMed citations began around the time...
Does anyone know why this policy was changed and what process led to the change? Is it just a co-incidence that this was occurring in the midst...
Thanks Michiel. A couple of new rapid responses about this too: https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.l6802/rapid-responses
Hi Michiel - did you ever get a response to this?
I don't know about the author or what sort of evidence their is for any therapy that they'd prefer, but the piece seemed worthwhile, and it's good...
(more of the Lancet acting as if it's not part of the problem) Thiis probably isnnt worth posting, but for those of you who have followed the...
I liked their tactic of talking about being 'open-minded' about re-defining CFS in a way which would lead to 8.6% of the population being given...
I see little reason to trust anyone involved in this. If Cochrane recognise that the history of comments from someone like Gøtzsche might mean he...
Anthony David is the mate of Wessely's who nominated Sir Simon for the Maddox prize.
I wouldn't hope for much there... the CMRC have invited the PACE trial's Gabrielle Murphy to share her expertise on 'what works':...
To me, the problems surrounding ME/CFS seem to stem from people going beyond what the evidence shows. At the moment, we can't know whether or not...
Given how rubbish and unethical many of those devising/providing psychological treatments for ME/CFS have shown themselves to be, I don't think...
Surely there'd be meaningful change to almost any illness if someone was to switch from responding in the most unreasonable and self-destructive...
But if you're defining illnesses as disease processes then isn't it a truism that all illnesses are "purely physical"? In which case, saying that...
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