Subgroup analysis showed that in clinical trials of psychological-psychiatric interventions (n=8), the mean pooled placebo response was 14%.
This paper is of interest. https://sci-hub.se/10.1097/01.psy.0000156969.76986.e0
They should do this study with controls that have similar number of symptoms and symptom burden but recognized pathology. That would tell you...
Ms Monaghan is fantastic. She gave me some hope after these insulting NICE panel nominations.
AIDS activists supposedly impressed with their knowledge of AIDS related science. If we can demonstrate a superior grasp of science and embarass...
That is why we need to focus on a few arguments that are bullet-proof. If you start arguing about what real ME is, you're losing because there are...
One of the long term advocacy goals should be user-defined research priorities. Then we can starve the quacks of funding. Without funding they...
My results. Would this fall into group 1?
NICE is coming across extremely poorly here. It's reasonable to ask for a committee with no conflicts of interest or particular ideological...
It could be the first excuse they came up with for this methodological weakness. Remember, they originally planned to objectively measure activity...
@Jonathan Edwards what do you make of the normal VO2max scores in two studies (as mentioned in the review by Mark Vink)? And of some other nearly...
Do you think that reports of deterioration must be considered valid even if we were to dismiss the reports of improvement as probably due to bias?...
Indeed. They want to establish a new kind of medicine where every illness is biopsychosocial and psychiatrists treat the psychosocial aspects....
Of course the symptoms are real. Whether the hypothesis that they are caused principally by the psyche is correct or not remains to be seen...
One thing is clear: the PACE people are digging an ever deeper hole for themselves by continuing to misrepresent reality. It is very hard to...
Does anyone understand how these findings relate to ME/CFS?
Did you say nanoneedle biosensor?
I've been told that they will not use the Chalder fatigue scale.
I see that he is collecting objective data before and after this PEM provocation method. That seems important because in a fluctuating condition...
As believer or unbeliever?
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