Even though this is a feasibility study, the lack of control group, blinding, and objective outcomes is a major problem. It is clearly stated in...
It reminds me of the comment by Nasim Marie Jafry on the dialogue between James David Chapman and Professor Danny Blanchflower. The Mutual...
I appreciate that figures such as unemployment can be defined in different ways, and that both Blanchflower’s and Guido Fawkes’s statements must...
I would like to add that I agree that no one should attack Professor Blanchflower—or anyone else—on a personal level. One should definitely not...
I am well aware that the blog post on Blanchflower’s predictions only reflects the opinion of the blogger, who may have an agenda of his own. Your...
Professor Blanchflower seems to make categorical and ill-conceived statements not only about ME/CFS, but also in his own area of expertise. If he...
I think that many of us have noticed the presence of Professor Danny Blanchflower on Twitter. He is an old friend of Professor Peter D White and...
Thanks for the info. We have a biopsychosocial fanatic in Sweden, Dr Jörgen Malmquist, who repeatedly has claimed that the name of the illness...
The relative number of cases that are triggered by an infection is typically in the interval 70–80%. Wessely states 72%, Evengård 80% (2003), and...
I agree, she seems legitimate. She has written about ME/CFS on the web page of the National Swedish Television. She says that it is a neurological...
I think it is quite clear that the meaning of the term ME has shifted, and that it originally referred to an acute illness with a strong...
I think that the terminology has always been ambiguous. “Graded” does not necessarily mean that the activity level should increase. A paper by...
I think we need to stress over and over again that the main criticism of the PACE study concerns the basic design flaws. They used subjective...
Great article! I am looking forward to the published version. :thumbup: Many thanks to the authors for this important paper! :hug:
I would like an update of the 2006 paper by Anthony Komaroff, "Top Ten Discoveries about the Biology of CFS". It was embedded in another article...
The title says that we should acknowledge good intentions of researchers, but the text implicitly asks us to accept conclusions that are...
Suggested alternative title: Tutorial: The Practical Guide How to Create a (Bio)psychosocial Pseudomodel for an Illness of Arbitrary Etiology
For crying out loud. Is the PACE team going to teach us about Structural Equation Models? Embarrassing. Their analysis uses subjective outcomes...
It is interesting to note that there has been a study where ME/CFS patients were treated with homeopathy. It is difficult to compare the results...
Melvin Ramsay wrote in his account of the Royal Free epidemic: "So radically did McEvedy & Beard influence medical opinion that when I attempted...
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