Thanks, @Stewart and @large donner. People have sent me some excerpts from the trial seeing committee meetings, and I'm pretty shocked at the...
Yes, this is indeed a falsehood. The protocol was indeed published. I'm not interested in who approved it and who didn't (that's an internal...
He's doing his best to support his mates and his own strongly-held beliefs, but he must have been a little too overconfident to actually read the...
I personally feel rather flattered... :x3:
Oh, I forgot this gem: Yes @Barry, this was a curious move to make. It is indeed an admission. What on earth do they think the published...
Thanks for posting this, @Eagles. Actually, its not too bad as a defence of the PACE trial - given that its tough to make an argument here to...
Thanks for finding these, everyone! What a great go-to place this is if you want to find out what's going on the area. Its works like a kind of...
Yes, I'm a research psychologist, with a background In Experimental Psychology. I think its completely fair to say that Psychology, as a...
Sorry, just saw this. We looked at the number of participants that reached the threshold specified in the trial protocol for having improved on...
I've only seen FDR used in the context of many tests (although I admit I might not have noticed much what researchers use in areas outside my...
This is brilliant, @Evergreen!:laugh:
Yes, Bruce Levin was very emphatic on the point that values that equal the critical value of p count as significant. I looked it up, and this is...
The paper reports results based on both models - 6 comparisons versus 5 comparisons. So readers can actually see what difference this made. But...
Yes, in fact we present this analysis in the paper, and we obtained the same results as you did. We actually corrected for 5 AND for 6 total...
No, and that is something for people concerned with ethics and patients' rights. From the point of view of the science, which was the only thing...
That's a good point, @Sasha.
Whether not not their 'committee' gave them approval is neither here nor there from the perspective of evaluating the research. If you change what...
This is interesting. Yes, it does seem that the recovery definition was probably changed after the Lancet 20011 analyses were complete. Yes, I...
Yes. But the Protocol is the Protocol is the Protocol. Its the binding promise about what you're going to do. Its fine to supply further details...
I think that's spot-on, @Samuel. To them, the whole illness is a problem with the way you think. So what needs to be done is to change the way...
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