To avoid misunderstanding , the results are also consistent with biased reporting and no actual improvement in health. A proponent of CBT and LP...
Nice find. My thoughts are that this might not convince proponents of something like CBT or LP. It might just reinforce their belief that...
Uhm.. yes? It is not optimized for clinical trials though. Forget telling your disease to stop while making gestures and standing in a magical...
The only way to improve on LP is a therapy that attempts to convince patients that answering questionnaires of the kind used in clinical trials in...
Not that it matters much. The whole trial is rubbish because it completely fails to control for bias affecting subjective outcomes.
If disbelievers had been sent to do LP, they could plausibly drag down the average of the LP group because they might find it weird and...
Yes and this dragging down of scores can be avoided by simply not giving LP to people that don't believe in it, even if they were originally...
The patients in the LP group who didn't actually end up doing LP were probably not random events. If the reason they didn't do LP was because...
51 allocated to SMC+LP, but 9 only got SMC, and 3 got SMC+1 day of LP (which must be less than the full dose). Only 39 received SMC+LP in the...
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The patients that don't stick to their assigned treatment arm should in my opinion be counted as having dropped out. I wonder if that would...
There's hardly a better way to destroy the credibility of a condition claimed to be a serious, incurable neurological disease by its sufferers...
Journalists that believe everything Wessely and co say without question are a problem.
Maybe we need guidelines that say patients with confirmed or suspected CFS or OI should lie down for 10 minutes with lightly elevated feet before...
Maybe a part of the problem is that patients cannot communicate effectively when before actually talking to the doctor they have probably spent a...
One of the prevalent sensations in my body, especially when exhausted, could be described as a feeling similar to that of lack of air. It's more...
The reason that oxygen levels start high and drop sharply right after is because the machine that controls the oxygen levels in the medium is...
Yes there is some psychosomatic ideology in this document but it's not too bad. It is not clear why the placebo arm improved and as much fun as...
The number n, after a 0.6 fold change, is n * 0.6
It says in the paper that the SOE patients had a clinical diagnosis of ME/CFS. Maybe I missed it but I don't believe the paper says that a ME/CFS...
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