Yes, becomes and exercise in linguistic agility rather than sound trial design.
There are some people for whom fooling others is a skill acquired very early on, and becomes a way of life.
Yes, I didn't want to laden my post with too much. I suspect there must have been rumblings between 2007 and 2011 that brought them up short. I've...
Agree entirely. It is not simply about the outcomes being missing - it is about why they are missing. A highly plausible reason could be the...
The big problem often is that not only are they highly capable of fooling themselves, they are also highly capable of fooling others.
Basically moving the goalpost to wherever they want to kick the ball.
There is a very good reason for this I'm sure, as this link will help to clarify: 'PACE was not a "randomised, controlled trial" as stated by...
As I understand it randomisation is to avoid selection bias. Other forms of bias need other strategies to deal with them. Randomisation is just...
I think another key source of bias is hope. A person desperately wishes for an intervention to work, and to self report otherwise serves to...
[my bold] On the face of it that makes some sense to me. The gold standard for comparison being "a large randomised trial without any flaws". So...
Yes. A clear understanding of the changes would be good.
I understand the words of 2.3, but not really what it means ... what does it mean: "Deviations that arose because of the trial context?" Trying to...
Sadly ironic they exhibit so much bias developing a tool for measuring bias. But not in the least surprising.
Should especially include the infamous "we prefer" supposed rebuttal by MS. I appreciate @dave30th's endeavours would fall outside the scope of...
Exactly the same.
From Cortene's website, under their 'Science' tab: Clearly not any reliable evidence as yet then. There are all sort of conditions sharing "many...
Interesting nonetheless. I wonder if there is a correlation?
Unfortunately they have the requisite rubber stamping.
Yes! Firstly to avoid confusion, note their statement "as compared with approximately 7% with each of the other three interventions" actually...
Should also include the full "rebuttal chain" to clarify and expose how BPS researchers' alleged rebuttals are nothing of the sort; far from being...
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