That seems very reasonable to me. If the person's strategy for managing their illness includes not doing things that require sudden changes in...
The problem is that in the open label follow on study with rituximab people repeatedly showed major improvement in a time frame that matched...
I don't think it is anything like as simple as that. For some, yes, but you have to remember that trials are carried out on people at all stages...
As far as I can see the results show that their measures do not measure what they thought they measured. Hair levels were supposed to be the...
I am sceptical of that approach. We have not so far ever known that mitochondrial function is affected in ME. It is a speculation that is quite...
I had assumed that he was just talking about some soluble or suspendible factor of the sort that has been proposed to explain previous results...
The problem is that for CCI we do not even have controls, so it makes no difference whether measures are objective or subjective. Moreover, in...
That would be an autopsy, but basically yes, biopsies of living brain are only justified if you have very good reason to think that you have...
The situation is complicated. I think I would probably have turned down the great majority of applications for ME research, just as the funding...
As I see it CBT implies a process that draws on a theory of how 'cognition' and behaviour relate causally. From what I have seen all such theories...
So much so that they are laying off senior staff like there's no tomorrow. The problem is not that too much money is going to biomedical research...
That looks to me like a clear case of sour grapes. Not a single argument is produced to support the case - other than that those other meanies...
Really, David, I thought you were a well read man of letters. Ralph Waldo Emerson: A [certain? - sources vary] foolish consistency is the...
Indeed. I am constantly reminded of Emerson's ' A foolish consistency...
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This is an interesting suggestion. In days gone by I would not have doubted it for a minute. But things are changing and one could argue that...
This suggests that the active ingredient is a 'therapy room' - maybe the wallpaper. So maybe not the cardigan?:( Good to disprove a theory though.
You would have thought so, but not in this field. For a professor in the field to not understand this or deliberately obfuscate seems to me less...
As far as I can see 'validation' means nothing other than that you get the same sort of answers on several trials. It means a questionnaire is...
At least the second part of this sentence seems fair. I agree that validation means nothing much more than that people who speak English can...
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