Maybe they used this one item from the CDC checklist?: "Feeling ill after exertion" (rated 'not at all present', 'present a little', 'present...
Or they selected patients from the trial so that about half had reported deterioration.
I can feel nervous that regularly sending open letters like this might seem like 'harassment' to the privileged Establishment figures whose...
For someone who claims to hate being the bearer of bad news, I do seem to dole it out on a fairly regular basis.
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there's growing evidence linking amitriptyline to an increased risk of dementia:...
No, that's almost certainly not true.
A key 'deprivation of liberty', in a medical context, is patients being manipulated with misleading claims of treatment efficacy. I wonder how...
Jameson always comes across as so creepy. He reminds me of Vogt - they both had periods of ill health where they got caught up in worrying too...
LOL - that's what I thought. Have you written to them to ask exactly what it is that they do not accept? Thanks for your work.
The Wilshire reanalysis paper repeated Edward's point about the problem of subjective self-report outcomes in a nonblinded trial! Concerns about...
I've got no advice, but best wishes with everything.
That's interesting. "NHS Lothian do not accept the petitioners criticisms of the PACE trial.” They were a bit low on specifics there. What do...
I've got some sympathy for Wessely here, which is odd. It can be hard to judge an exchange like this without knowing more about how these people...
Seems like this is good news (although I'm disappointed in anything that doesn't explicitly put the boot into PACE).
Did she say PACE was a great trial? It has been ages since I saw her comment on it, but I thought she just kept doing that annoying thing of...
I didn't see any mention of the Science Media Centre on my late night read (I might have missed it), and I'd have liked that. A lot of good stuff...
Interesting how they talk about 'chronic fatigue', but link to pages on CFS/ME.
It's such a pain that the Establishment is such a temperamental creature. It can be hard to know how to get it to start behaving better.
The SMILE trial clearly fails to fulfil BMJ's requirement for research they publish. It takes five minutes of checking to see that. What reality...
These sorts of committees and reports are the sort of things we should be trying to engage with. Thanks a lot to whoever it was who reached out to...
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