I agree that it can have dreadful consequences for something that requires diversity of thought and will affect a lot of people. That's why we...
Thanks. (Though it's risky to assume that my views in June 2021 on any point are the same as they were in 2019, unless I said so. People learn...
Thanks! Not about any specific issue nor about criticism or criticizing the same thing persistently. However, the "is there a way we can increase...
Thank you - and everybody - for the time and thought you put into them. I will at times be slow getting to them, but I read them with care and...
It's number 24.
For reference on this, here are some things I've written specific to this: The evidence base, the Cochrane review, and the AHRQ review in...
I agree that knowledge and awareness of context is critical, and it's an asset, not a bias. Sometimes, people need to change their minds - in the...
Yes. I quoted George's publication in the first post I wrote about ME/CFS. And this is what I wrote to that point: There was another powerful...
Thanks for that, Jonathan. George is awesome. It's a privilege to know and work with him.
If my own interests were front and center for me, I would never have written a word about ME/CFS. That's ineffably sad. It is literally because...
Thanks. There are people who feel exactly the same way about authors you may approve of (although I realize it's also of course possible that you...
I undertook to consult and consider alternative language to activist: I've done that, as well as some hunting around about the language people and...
Just to clarify, Julia Newton is a member of the author team, not a peer reviewer. In addition to her clinical and research roles, she is a...
I was replying to this: "I am not sure if you prefer not to read my posts @Hilda Bastian, or whether you just find them too close to home to respond".
The inadequacy and cherry-picking in attending to other major systematic reviews is one of the criticisms I made of the amended review in October...
I read all the posts, but won't be replying to all of them. If I was bothered by this, I wouldn't have accepted this role, or the invitation to...
Thanks. I am reading the thread. If I don't answer a question that's been asked several times, it's not because I've overlooked it: it's because...
No, I'm not saying any of that. (Indeed I've said that I had invited one who declined on grounds of illness.) And as I've also said, I would not...
I've replied previously that I will expand on the process in a methods report. Kay Hallsworth did not seek this role. I found her via internet...
Yes - and thanks for the suggestion.
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