Intelligence is a purely mental phenomena that can only be measured subjectively, but a lack of it certainly can lead to some pretty awful...
I think what I am trying to say is that if I sat in front of the committee, I would start by saying that the Oxford criteria is very different...
Agreed: that's why we need a say on the selection of members.
Personally, I think we have to refine and restrict our approach. I'm fully in favour of published studies/analyses showing up all the faults in...
I put out an appeal on Facebook with a picture of my dog, George. Let's see if that boosts it at all. [ATTACH]
This is side-stepping the issue a bit, but to be honest the rot started with the introduction of the National Curriculum. Suddenly instead of just...
When I was teaching, I would regularly put up some sort of claim as a poster in the classroom, then wait for the squeals of protest. "9 out of...
The only thing I would want to add to this is that it would be wrong if the government took it over and then started to increase the expectations...
FINE was for those unable to get to an ME centre, which also included those who were not severe but who did not have a local ME centre, or were...
They did, and I thought that they meant what they implied, but then, after the PACE data was released, when they reassessed the improvement...
Looking at Figure 1 on the original PACE paper, after the first set of exclusions were carried out, it left 1460 patients. It seems as though 533...
It isn't at all clear whether they had other conditions that had not been spotted (such as sleep apnoea), which could account for up to half of...
They used the London criteria for ME, which is only used, as far as I can see, by some UK researchers. They found that half of those who qualified...
A thousand in day one. Then two days for the next thousand. Is it going to be three days for the next thousand, or four?
Sorry! What I was meaning was that starting to understand ME, realizing that the scary symptoms are normal, avoiding boom and bust, pain control,...
But there is evidence from PACE that certain treatments worked, and produced improvements not only in subjective but also in some of the objective...
The truth is though that we have no need to criticize the Oxford criteria. The small trials "supporting" CBT prior to 2007 used Oxford, and were...
I think there is a cross-communication error here, and will stick my neck out to suggest how. I think Jonathan is entirely right with his...
Not far to go now to the 250,000 who have been "diagnosed" with various labels, but who end up in the same bucket. Has it been plugged on Twitter...
Interesting! The PACE trial was heavily criticized for claiming an effect when, in truth, they proved that CBT was ineffective. The use of the...
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