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Makes me nervous... I have to say, I can be less than enthusiastic about 'awareness raising', when there's still such potential for it to blow up...
Thanks for those notes @Sly Saint - really useful for those not able to watch it all. Any particular public comments/replies that you thought...
Thanks Graham and John! I don't know much about how NICE works, and it's been a long time since I read the NICE guidelines, so my comments might...
Hammond is so annoying. He always evades the important specifics, and retreats to general calls for more 'bio-medical' research, or something like...
If there was compensation for everyone in this situation, and then maybe they'll have a real incentive to change.
And here's the paper that article is about: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/58235/1/1351_Shakespeare.pdf
What a piss-poor argument. I'm amazed that there are still people who want to try to defend PACE without engaging in any of the details of the...
I started writing a sit-com based on PACE misdeeds with some other people I know. Turns out that writing a sit-com is really hard. Also, lines...
I fear there will be some annoyingly thoughtless stuff in there. Last night I found a thesis on CFS that I'd downloaded a while back and never...
"We need to have more confidence in the people chosen to lead big projects. " Hmm... then you need to do more to hold to account those who place...
Phil Parker is impressed with the video: [MEDIA] [MEDIA] Standing up for Science... shoulder to should with magical Phil.
Thanks for the link. I wanted to watch it, I started to watch it... I stopped watching it. Too slow. Needed some more pointed questions! Hearing...
OMG - people are reading her papers, watching her talks, and then complaining about when she misrepresents the evidence... imagine if we treated...
Crawley seems more interested in inciting disdain of people because they're critical of her work, rather than because they're disabled... it just...
I think it's best to be cautious with this stuff, at least for now. Personally, I think it would be best to start by asking questions about what...
LOL - I reckon that paragraph would seem nonsensical to people not already familiar with all this. It's like with PACE - things are so bad that...
They're a private company notorious in the UK for doing poor quality disability assessments that led to lots of seriously ill people getting...
The Oxford criteria studies were not 'banned', but a major report was very critical of the Oxford criteria. Stating: "continuing to use the Oxford...
I don't think that's right, although Wessely has worked with the DWP in various questionable ways. His links to insurance companies are much...
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