This is an answer from the Secretary of State/Department of Health and Social Care - the Westminster system seems to allow for the appointment of...
"Id Dr Busse had been appointed as chairman presumably there is a high chance that the result would have been different. That makes the system...
Thank you for this. I agree surely NICE could employ scientist graduates to do this "I think it would be fair to ask technical staff to search for...
I think we should challenge the recent NICE decision to stick with using Cochrane*. I was thinking of writing to the APPGs on ME/CFS (title?) and...
I don't keep up with this stuff so I may be inaccurate here. The whole thing seems bonkers* we can see NICE aligning themselves with Cochrane but...
I assume that problems re lipids would have turned up in one of the metabolomics paper e.g. Jonas Bergquist published a study a few years ago....
With such debilitating illness I'm hoping something turns up on the GWAS study - that way there'd be more reliable clues regarding where to focus...
The use of a very basic form of actimetry (activity monitoring), i.e. FitBit, in this study seems to challenge the dependence on questionnaires in...
@Mithriel just noticed your profile picture and that bear looks like it was introduced to a not very friendly porcupine!
Wow I'm conscious of how complicated this is and your grasp of the material - thank you very much for this detailed response. I think I read...
Yea but if you were asked to provide the title then ---- How to build a career out of scamming the public into paying for flawed research ---...
I recall @Snow Leopard post here re Fluge & Mella's recent paper*. Is this theory related to HPA axis and if so is this at odds with Fluge &...
I noticed they used an objective outcome indicator* - interesting to see the raw data --- is it available/has anyone had a look at it? *"Secondary...
Yea that's a common concern i.e. how do you get adequate controls to assess the affect of sedentary behaviour?
Weird my wife takes carnitine (post antibiotic) and my daughter has disabling fatigue. Carnitine "transports long-chain fatty acids into...
Yea but we can see what a shambles you get if you don't employ reviewers who aren't sufficiently knowledgeable and/or have a conflict of interest....
Yea we maybe need that book @Jonathan Edwards --- has the system learned nothing from this debacle?
Yea, sure others picked up on this from Trudie Chalder: Chalder, the CBT practitioner, said it was unhelpful to see the debate in black and white....
Yea Ron Davis got (5 year) NIH grant back in 2018 - so maybe this is an early indication of where that it is going [Fluge, Mella --- are part of...
Didn't OMF (Ron Davis?) get a NIH grant to sequence HLA? Could have been KIR sequencing of course. Perhaps @Ben H could provide an update?...
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