A really good FOI requesty @JohnTheJack. This is so very true to form. The authors only mentioning the bit of the REC response they want people...
This does highlight how these particular BPS proponents rely on choosing hypotheses that, even if they are groundless, can be tricky to actually...
And still every bit as true. The big difference now is the audience, which includes many more influential people than it did 2+ years back. And...
In the very early days of blood transfusions (before the issue of blood groups was understood), where some people were presumably lucky enough...
It is clear there is potential for conflict of interest, and given the circumstances here, I think it was likely a reality. But in the general...
It can seem confusing, but NICE (as an example) makes it very clear in their 2018 "Policy on declaring and managing interests for NICE advisory...
Really good @dave30th. I only became aware of what was going on around Aug 2016, so this was well before then. Most of the questions are things...
Presumably in a normal scientific world, that might have then been a pointer to investigate alternative causal possibilities.
Which of course is clinicians playing god in the extreme. I fully appreciate a doctor will sometimes have to make decisions in situations where...
Exactly. Who will provide the definitions of improvement and recovery into that data, for the AI system to 'learn' from?
But it has to be appreciated that the psychotherapy is not an independent treatment component to the exercise. As they see it, the essential...
Given the PACE authors believe the illness is wholly due to people's unhelpful beliefs needing to be changed, then absolutely anything that helps...
Yep. Incredibly obvious things that you could not imagine need saying ... seem to need saying.
"And there are important and legitimate issues here – not just people who don’t agree with the results." Suggests awareness of Sharpe and Co's...
Excellent! Warm welcome Saran.
Completely ignore (never feed trolls, let them starve) but keep tabs on, would be my thinking.
Beat me to it! :)
And perhaps that if there are holes in arguments advocating for pwME, it is better to address them here than the BPS people use them to undermine...
Energy budgeting?
Surely a world of difference Jonathan. You acknowledged your patients' real physical illness (hugely important 'psychological therapy' in itself),...
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