[my bold] I find that statement rather enlightening, as it strongly indicates a potentially unhealthy relationship between Cochrane and its...
Which rather fits with the touchy feely science.
[ATTACH] "worrying precedent for scientific evidence being over-ridden by the opinions of activists" ... no, flawed, low quality evidence being...
Is this at the heart of the problem? Are Cochrane terrified they will open the floodgates to many other of their reviews being validly challenged?...
I would suggest that the dog turd is actually much better, being tangible evidence the dog produced something clearly important to its ongoing health.
Dogma is not engagement.
Done.
Finally got around to watching this. Dead impressed. Great presentation that covers many of the important issues that the innocently uninformed...
Sorry @DokaGirl. I'm very well aware that food allergies are no fun at all, but your analogy here did give me a chuckle ... :).
Their oft-cited claim that GET is safe provided it is administered properly, totally misses a massively important fact - no one, them especially,...
Yes it is a straw man argument, and a very subtle one. These people excel at presenting them in extremely plausible-sounding ways. It is often the...
Given it is based on being smallest change in clinical outcome deemed to be important, then I presume it would be valid to compare the difference...
[my bold] How can a scientific paper include the above? Are they suggesting that adverse safety events would not constitute worsening of...
I think it's more than arrogance @MEMarge, I think it's cold, calculating misdirection. Making a false comparison with one very reasonable thing,...
Yes, I fully understand the principle of control arms and measuring differences, so that common mode effects get cancelled out. And that the PACE...
To be fair I knew a good friend/colleague who lost his long hard fight with cancer some while back now. He and his wife openly told me and others...
Hopefully also act as a test case and trigger for further reassessments of other Cochrane poor reviews.
[ATTACH] What a strange comment. "Truly objective outcomes don't exist. The key finding is DIFFERENCE between arms". Seems like a curve ball....
Yes, it seems to show how the normal Cochrane process is to be bullied by authors, and having the "Cochrane" brand attached to your work is not so...
The paper may have been withdrawn by Cochrane rather than retracted, but when you read these emails it is clear the paper is effectively stuffed....
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