She was a co-author on PACE, and their recent response to Geraghty: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1359105316688953 That included a...
I understand the concerns, but no petition/project will be perfect, and I've put my name to things that have had elements I'm really not happy...
There are legitimate concerns about the use of surveys. I'm not sure how strong a card they are, and NICE heavily downplayed these results last...
I just had a little flash of how much I take for granted the improved coverage we've been getting. Every couple of days there's a new article out...
The fact that the research they do fund is so often harmful BS that attracts loads of criticism is a bit of a problem. Seems that the people they...
[MEDIA] The reanalyses provided results for the outcomes pre-specified in the protocol Sharpe was a co-author of. Also, he wasn't 'Simply...
Magenta is the trial with actimeters (although Crawley says that she thinks kids cheat with them, so who knows what that means).
Tony Britton posted a scan on twitter: [MEDIA]
Only looked at the abstract. Are they claiming associations are explanations? Seems odd when the associations are between things like 'fatigue',...
I think it would be ideal to close most of the current services and start afresh. This would help get rid of a lot of those who've caused the most...
Hmmm... I'm feeling suspicious.
Good to hear you were there to raise those issues. In situations like that I always wonder if they just act ignorant. Did he make any criticism of...
I don't find that too reassuring - if I was a staunch PACE defender keen to get GET and CBT in NICE I think that I'd take a similar approach at a...
LOL - I'd really love to know how it is he thinks he's deciding which questions are 'real' or 'curious', and which are 'accusations' or 'tricks'....
I was a bit disappointed in the PACE section, which is what interested me the most. Also a shame that the Conversation chose to link to their not...
How can we know how many times those promoting myths have won? We'd look back and now see it as reality having won in the long run.
I can focus on any problems, maybe in the hope of avoiding them in the future, but this is still definitely a good thing.
I think it's too strong. They often leave room for the potential for a range of causes of ill-health to be included within CFS/ME, even if they do...
LOL - this is what he thinks research looks like when everything has gone well?
The 'all in the mind' phrasing is loose in a way that I think is unhelpful, but even just the "recognises the fantastic work campaigners and...
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