I think it was a figure given by the PACE researchers a long time ago. If including the costs of trying to keep their data hidden, I expect it...
as ever, I just mention possible weak points: Have they got the 2014 Larun review a bit mixed up with the still unpublished IPD review? It was...
Yeah - a vital problem with the incentive structures and systems within academia is that they allow researchers to produce junk science and then...
We need more local healthy volunteers! Thanks a lot to whoever is doing all that traveling.
Crtical comment under that Bastian blog. Small excerpt: "Of course, you are not responsible for the shadows. No, your position is much worse....
Another blog from Hilda Bastian:...
New blog from Hilda Bastian giving her view on things:...
She and her husband are also socially connected to Wessely.
No control group, so can't tell us much. If some people find yoga makes their life better, great, but that doesn't alter the fact that Colin...
Also - I think that this needs to be seen in the context of a number of pieces in the MEA magazine promoting Barton and his group recently. WTF is...
I probably should have said 'of less value' rather than 'less interest'. I'm going to stop posting now, before this thread becomes just me having...
I meant that it was worse. There's more good reason to inform patients of junk-science, and patients are more likely to be aware of problems and...
Promoting puff pieces about Colin Barton, who is presented as a representative of patients, is quite different from posting dodgy research...
I don't think Colin Barton understands or cares about the harm he does. The MEA should make it clear that he is untrustworthy when they report on...
Thanks for letting us know - and especially thanks to Strassers.
A bit OT, but there's a new article on problems/controversies with meta-analyses here. Includes tiny bits from Coyne and Tovey on COIs:...
For some reason I've got a bad association with the Lind Alliance. I don't know why - maybe they did some work with another condition that I...
It could be that a lot of them already had a problem with Gotzsche? I am surprised members seem to have swung behind the board so readily after...
Edit: It seems that the BRTC is a separate project - although it's involvement with SMILE still raises serious questions about Bristol's...
It can be difficult to get to the point with PACE as it often feels like we need to ramble away trying to pre-empt and unpick the prejudices...
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