I find it annoying that they are an organization that cannot admit they made a mistake or that the researchers (QMUL) didn't give them sufficient...
I think the proposal that Chris Ponting, Stephen Holgate and others are putting forward to the MRC strategy board is really good. It isn't as such...
I think that it is significant that they can't get their story straight in that sometimes they claim a treatment or cure (in their recovery paper)...
I think it is more they are judged by the numbers of papers published and without reviewing no one would meet the expected quota.
Because they need others to peer review their papers. Scientific publishing is quite a big and profitable business. Publishing costs were...
Specifically ME Tom points to one here https://www.s4me.info/threads/cochrane-me-cfs-get-review-temporarily-withdrawn.6225/page-5#post-112908...
She also did some very dodgy training videos
I'm surprised that Tovy wasn't really angry with the review authors since they took what was an editorial discussion and made it into a high...
I assumed that the standards they followed reflected the standards within the mental health research communities (or some of them)
Is it that each variant has a small effect or could it be that combinations of variants have an effect but not necessarily single ones? I think...
I was wondering if we could do something from the forum - I will think about this a bit further. The issue is that researchers still use HADS as a...
What Snaith seems to be saying is that HADS was designed to tell the difference between anxiety and depression rather than measure some general...
Perhaps we could survey patients and ask what they associate the question answers with to see the reasons responses would change with ill/not ill...
It is also worth reading the questions especially the depression ones - the answers are my guesses over potential reasons but they say there are...
Coyne called for HADS to be abandoned a while ago since the results were very inconsitent. Some references here:...
I think it is worth saying that sample sizes are typically based on power calculations and by looking at the experience of other studies. I am...
Its worth reminding people that Aylward was the one getting funding for PACE from the DWP and I think was involved in the trial stering group.
Because they only looked at trials that reported harm (i.e. PACE) and they dismissed the reported issues as unrelated to GET. We should remember...
No I think I wasn't clear - I'm also finding it hard to function in the heat.
Yes I missed that bit out. I guess it is that the difference between the arms need to be big enough that it makes a real difference to a patient.
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