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I doubt they know what they're actually measuring. I can't access the paper and have no idea what test they actually performed.
Sonya Chowdhury says: Looks like a step forward. Although they don't explicitly condemn GET and appear to still leave room for it or similar...
CBT and GET don't appear to have a meaningful effect for the vast majority of patients even when broad criteria are used.
That idea is based on the two age peaks, right? [ATTACH]
Researchers should be discouraged from continuing to do poor research. Mutual respect is impossible when the researchers in question continue to...
Having a serious illness would be associated with both belief to have a serious illness and worse outcomes (when compared to milder illness). The...
Whether campaigning against PACE is legitimate or misguided depends on whether PACE is good or bad research. Same argument applies to complaints...
While I can understand that it's more important to focus on methodology rather than the ideology behind CBT/GET, I still feel that PACE authors...
Maybe they have such great difficulty understanding that biasing of subjective measures is problematic because they've been taught that CFS is a...
Maybe Prof. Watt has more of a lab background and lacks the skills to assess clinical trial methodology? She doesn't seem to have a background in...
In defense of humans, I must say that the ability to make errors enables us to learn what works and to find the right middle ground between...
Dogs can't think at the same level of us humans, so they don't come up with stupid ideas such as thoughts and feelings causing persistent...
Can we have some replication and large representative cohorts to go with the hype?
Yes. If patients genuinely had beliefs that got in the way of getting better, changing those beliefs would be the right thing to do. But they...
From the perspective of the people who think they are delivering an effective treatment when manipulating the patient's judgement of their health...
Perfect comment.
I would appreciate a comment that introduces the idea that PACE-like methodology is common in this area of medicine and that this is hurting...
98% accuracy is higher than any other results reported so far. The folks with the highest accuracy are closest to the source of the problem, right?
I understand they measured the phenylalanine content of cells and found it was elevated in ME/CFS. The method used appears to be very accurate in...
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