Agreed, but merely asking for "objective" outcomes could still leave the door wide open for misleading claims. We need to clearly define what...
Designing a reliable clinical trial of CBT/GET seems difficult without an objective marker of disability, ill health, or disease activity. That is...
He would never admit to disliking patients because it doesn't fit the image he's trying to cultivate. The solution is to say other people dislike...
Some thoughts on this http://www.bristol.ac.uk/ccah/research/childdevelopmentdisability/chronic-fatigue/magenta-trial/ Ineffective treatments...
What the PACE CBT therapist manual says about setbacks https://www.qmul.ac.uk/wolfson/media/wolfson/current-projects/3.cbt-therapist-manual.pdf...
CBT/GET proponents seem to view "setbacks" as normal and expected event during therapy. The impression is that adverse reactions are normalized.
That's when patients are informed that their belief to have been harmed is incorrect. It is assumed that patients are not sick, and that exercise...
Right. That is the most likely explanation.
One day I hope to understand the mystery of what really happens when someone claims they've been cured thanks to LP. Are they full blown...
That said it is very disappointing that Prof. Bishop doesn't seem to have recognized LP as exploitative pseudoscience. Kids being instructed by a...
If PACE taught me anything, besides unblinded trials relying on questionnaire being unreliable, it's that science is hard and even the pros make a...
The highly competitive capitalist society is failing so many. Even medical science might not be a morass of false and exaggerated claims if it...
I looked around a little and found nothing related to ME/CFS. She appears to be involved in IBS research https://www.contactme-ibs.co.uk/ My...
I see no butcher though. Someone that would go over the last Wilshire et al PACE paper.
I fear that this one will be all about defending business interests :sick:
I think this might be the rather ordinary hypnagogic hallucinations.
Shorter will write an article on Psychology Today on how this shows that real imaginary illnesses are best treated with culture matched elaborate...
Exactly. The error is deliberate.
Have you read the paper?
That nobody is stopping Sharpe could mean that PACE authors are now in the phase where it is becoming apparent that the defenses will not hold...
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