Unfortunately @Trish there are many such people, the worst being those who have it in combination with lack of integrity/morality, and are very...
I think all the credit for that goes to the letter writers, because no way is MS ever going to retract anything for the right reasons; only if he...
Excellent, especially the book launch.
That sounds remarkably familiar in the context of ME and the 'establishment experts'.
Extremely good as always @dave30th. Big thank you. Whenever I read your blogs, especially these BMJ ones, I get a strong sense of the surreal....
That is very good @Lucibee. I especially like:
So the reviewers effectively violated their own stated selection criteria, which they stated in their paper. Doesn't seem very scientific.
This is such a long thread, so apologies if this has already been noted before. In the Cochrane review on page 1 it states the following...
That's what he was implying for sure, and 'sly' is the word. But he is falling into a trap of his own making, because one day all this is going to...
But could that person not be commissioned by a public body, and simply do that work on their behalf. The person doing the work would have no...
"Two of the world’s largest biomedical research funders have backed a plan to make all papers resulting from work they fund open access on...
Of course it is, just the same as it is legitimate for the PACE proponents to refute such claims with solid scientific debate, which they do not...
Yes! Taking woolly descriptions and arbitrarily ascribing numbers to them, does not suddenly and magically give them crystal clarity - just the...
From what @Jonathan Edwards says, this is normal practice. My response being ...
The 3+1 PACE Videos ... just to prove you can count ;).
i.e. To subvert people's natural safety mechanisms, when those safety mechanisms are in fact working perfectly well. If this were a workplace...
This surprises me. Marking one's own homework would seem susceptible to honest but very human bias at best, and decidedly dishonest and inhuman...
But @fivetowns is suggesting that a history of depression etc. can increase the probability of autoimmune diseases, not simply leave the...
Yes, been pondering a bit more, and can see how this mindset might have evolved. Note this is just my own mental ramblings, to take or leave, and...
This confused me at first until I realised that the way it is quoted makes the statement ambiguous. I thought for a moment it was saying that the...
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