I see now what 'transparent' is supposed to mean - to have the reasoning explicit. But GRADE does not do this. It just requires that you say you...
I was hoping someone would disagree with me to point out where I am arguing badly. But still time for that!
Interesting: That would seem to make a mockery of Busse et al.'s claim that GRADE had been disastrously misapplied. Clearly the GRADE people think...
Looking at the BMJ 'What is GRADE' and the opening para of 'How does it work?' the following sentence is interesting: An overall GRADE quality...
I think the BMJ What is GRADE is a reasonable place to get an overview. The GRADE manual is long, although it is reasonably easy to locate various...
And this is very odd wording. It seems to indicate either a lack of understanding of probability or a hidden assumption that the result was...
The point about giving some sort of positive value to evidence, however flawed, is also a salient one, yes. Any system like GRADE should recognise...
The idea of GRADE to provide a recipe for making decisions for people who are not themselves capable of making such decisions on their own is a...
Yes, it is revealing. The essence of Busse and Guyatt's beliefs about fibromyalgia appears to be: 'Belief that fibromyalgia is caused by an...
So what on earth is that supposed to mean. What is a reproducible framework, other than one that can be printed on several pieces of paper? And in...
Let's face it, Garner has been handing out judgments about people he doesn't;t like for the moment all along. First nobody was interested in his...
Like results in psychosomatic research then - all in the mind of the researcher? Makes sense.
I think it is remarkable how few people have put their heads above the woodwork parapet. Once NICE decided there were bound to be various...
"That would be a disastrous misapplication of GRADE." But in what senses? As I understand it all applications of GRADE are misapplications since...
She is obliged to do it that way by academic rules. I had to do the same.
An additional point is that within medical science formal debate on the most rational interpretation of evidence very rarely occurs and most...
There isn't any real arithmetic but there is enough pseudo-arithmetic to matter. The pseudo-arithmetic consists of giving grades of reliability...
Thanks for flagging this @Woolie. This is a nice ironic illustration of the core problem the GRADE enthusiasts and Cochrane reviewers seem to find...
But perhaps not if the lack of scientific integrity consisted of pretending to have lack of scientific integrity in order to have one's own paper...
I strongly but amicably disagree, @Michiel Tack. GRADE is an obscenity. It replaces rational analysis with pseudo-arithmetic. There is no possible...
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