Thanks. That's really useful. I just looked at the first participant blinded study in the MS review:...
I was having to learn what those stats meant as I was reading the paper so it's possible I misunderstood, was not clear, or have now misunderstood...
This reminds me of playing the mobile game 'plague'. The key to successfully wiping out humanity was evolving to be really infectious before the...
I just had a quick read of this - the results for different analyses have really wide confidence intervals, but seem fairly consistently around...
I've not read this new paper from Hróbjartsson, but thought I'd post it here as it has different conclusions (with different methods): Impact of...
Not by the Guardian's standards! I think it's worth avoiding being too critical of things. There's plenty of truly appalling things to complain about.
That was so inevitable that it doesn't even feel like a prediction!
Thanks so much for all your work, and updating us on this. A timely reminder that sometimes persistently making strong arguments does pay off....
From the Fink letter: reference v is Recovery Norge. It's so bizarre to see this specially selected collection of anecdotes being used in a...
Sounds like Cochrane?
I translated it in bits. Here it is:
Anyone seen the text of the Fink letter?
That's not a Cochrane review.
I wasn't starting from the assumption that FND is a sensible category or useful label - I don't know. Some people argue that FND is a label...
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I think part of the problem is you putting that framing in your own words. eg If you'd found someone saying "I insist that no physiological...
If explaining the problems with the way the SMC has promoted misinformation and prejudice, you could also ask if this is really the sort of...
I'd missed those survey results in here! Thanks to those at ME Action who did this. Although it's only the opinions of some researchers it's...
What do people think of this part? Wouldn't any UK body be very likely to made up of those with a desire to cover-up problems with the work of...
The FND field seems such a mess that I think it's very difficult to blog on if you haven't first put 20,000 words into explaining your definitions...
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