That's like students writing the exam paper. Surely a crucial part of Cochrane's responsibility is to independently assess the protocol, not just...
That is absolutely spot on. Pretenders with influence.
Yes. The thing you are most likely to believe, is the thing you most want to believe.
People are not objecting to the notion of subjective self reporting per se. It's when subjective primary outcomes are used in an unblinded trial...
So how is that any different from suggesting PACE established that GET is relatively safe for ME/CFS patients? Genuine question, not sarcasm.
Even that has to come with serious caveats though, because what they say will still likely differ significantly for unblinded versus blinded. So...
Is it even legal to run clinical trials if you lack the necessary qualifications? Else she might turn to brain surgery next, given she might think...
Excellent summing up. All manner of things I was going to quote regarding the absurdities of TC's approach to science, but then gave up! Just...
And in any case the results might be very woolly given the damage from GET doesn't necessarily reverse once you stop.
Hopefully not :).
And it is even worse than that surely, when you have open label trials with subjective primary endpoints, trialling treatments largely based on...
But if a valueless trial has been previously misconstrued as high value, and thereby significantly influenced importance policies and other...
Surely the trigger threshold for acknowledging the possibility of harms is (and must be) significantly less than that for safety acceptance? A car...
Isn't there another issue here? If studies have themselves already significantly influenced other studies, medical and government policies etc,...
Which is ironic, because these reviews of theirs are in fact oh-so empty ... they just have a lot of words in.
And there is the non-trivial bias that was reported somewhere by a PACE participant (maybe more than one), that because they wanted to show how...
I hadn't appreciated this. When I have (relatively often) had to go into hospital with cellulitis, they seem to take the "Victorian engineering"...
Though of course he may not be in any fit state to be contactable. But I take your point also of course.
Really sorry to hear this. Hope things improve for you now. Are you sure the IV was only a single antibiotic? In the past I've had a cocktail of...
Hopefully not a misplaced comma.
Separate names with a comma.
