Pure speculation but my understanding is that Jo Daniels was penalised in some way for tweeting about CBT a while back. I wonder if the problem is...
I think the change in leadership has already been organised. Fiona Godlee is stepping down. She made a remark about the BMJ moving into some...
Or Putin and Medvedev?!!
I think the only rational interpretation is that the final report will stick to the draft. There may be a minority report from those who stepped...
I think @chrisb is right in his history. When I started medicine in 1970 we worked on the basis that we thought we had a scientific understanding...
I had thought there were 4 patient reps, including Charles.
And Garner's comment is so true: “What is serious is that those resigning are some of the most respected service providers for ME/CFS services in...
Yes, I like that.
I had a look at the BMJ news piece published today. It is probably best for me not to write a rapid response although I am not actually aware of...
It seems the article was written by a freelance journalist often used by BMJ. If an article is going to be so heavily politically loaded you would...
it would fit with the theory that this 'illness' is essentially a political construct designed to placate the bruised feelings of the...
Not that I am aware of.
As indicated on another thread, NICE seem very confused about what conflict of interest means. Charles has no conflict of interest because his...
Moved post I think Charles is right not to challenge this since the report is all but completed. But there seems be a serious confusion at N ICE...
My mental arithmetic suggests that about 35% of men with RA wouldn't have had it if they hadn't smoked and about 16% of women with RA. So in women...
I think the causal role of smoking in RA is pretty well established and it is not small, even if not as dramatic as lung cancer. I think there is...
That just seems to be an observation on this pattern of B cell increase. Smoking is the most important environmental causal factor for rheumatoid...
All but two patients with PPBL suffered from a progressive long-lasting fatigue. Yes, but well people with PPBL probably mostly never get...
Yes, I did see the reference to Dr7 and the isochromosome which may make it worth considering an entity of genuine interest. Maybe having a lot of...
I think there may be a major spurious element to this. PPBL seems really just to mean people with rather high B cell counts, and B cell counts are...
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