Yeah - it made me think of a civil servant's attempt to avoid the real issues.
My main concern is that this is being promoted to people working with patients before we have any evidence that it's actually useful for patients....
She does seem to have been defending Cochrane a lot recently. I can't claim to have a good understanding of all the heated politics around...
I've still not found time to look at this report, but I'm sure that carefully done submissions would be useful. Also, remember to praise the good...
Having made a sound argument founded upon accurate accounts of the evidence is not a COI. But having a history of having misrepresented the...
Yeah, this response makes me think that Cochrane is even worse than I'd feared and leaves me dreading whatever they're going to do next. So many...
The on-going SMILE mess is making me want to give up hope for humanity. Thanks to Tuller for pushing on with it - are these letters getting...
Is it just me, or has a lot of really annoying stuff been posted today?
I don't think that's a helpful way of seeing things. Whenever that is viewed as the core issue it's leads to the inevitable and irrelevant...
It looks like now anyone can join Cochrane, so patients wanting to try to improve the quality of their work can contribute and vote in any future...
Best wishes to him. It's so difficult for individual patients to work out what is best, what is pseudo-science, what is questionable but plausible...
Does anyone know how Cochrane's CFS reviews fit into that chronology? Were things like Larun's published exercise review and the IPD protocol a...
That's what I thought on seeing Gutherdige's chart. This study, and the responses from Kindlon and Bramsen, were some of the first things I read...
That's a fair point, but the null results for employment kept being ignored anyway. If the paper was retracted due to the researchers refusal to...
That data would still be available so it's hard to believe that withdrawal of the paper would be unhelpful. Citing their poor results and then...
It seems unlikely that they'd fundamentally change the treatment for their follow-up trial. Maybe there was just some misunderstanding about what...
I should probably keep my ill-informed speculations to myself. Learn from Watson's mistakes!
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