Well there is the man with the orange hair, but within medical science, no. What is most remarkable here is the transparent misrepresentation of...
An interesting technical point occurred to me that I thought I would post here, as it is relevant to the quotes about unbounded trials. PACE was...
The nature of a guideline of this sort is that it has to be a guideline for anyone where diagnosis X is a major option or perhaps the closest...
It in't the common sense model. It is the popular prejudice old wive's tales model, as we all know. And, as Lewis Walpert said, science is about...
So people with ME, diabetes and arthritis have different perceptions about their illness? What a surprise. How can a paper get published with no...
Having lost my laptop on Swissair I was prompted to dig around in old laptops with dead batteries. Heathrow found my current laptop (after I had...
There are more complex reasons why the population recruited in PACE were inappropriate but the argument about being unethical to apply results...
The NICE committee consists of a good number of members who have a clear understanding of the evidence. There may be a similar number who have a...
Mm. As you probably know I see that as a red herring. There is no evidence for efficacy of CBT or GET for any group as far as I can see. The...
This is a review article titled to sound as if it is a data paper. As a review article it is poor. It is muddled and incorrect at almost every...
Yes, I appreciate that. I was more musing on the general phenomenon. And I guess this is why they do not say evidence-based because they know it...
I had not realised that this appeared in a commercial 'news' rag rather than as simple blog. I would be highly suspicious that this guy has been...
@Medfeb, I assume you have the package. I can just see the flyer - which is about how to manage your CFS, so the issue is the management bit. I...
The wikipedia article is fun because it shows what nonsense 'embodied mind' is. The problem is much worse than untestability. It is that people...
I don't think the embodied cognition concept actually needs any evidence to discredit it. It is meaningless. Of course that does not mean that...
Be careful to wear a Tarnhelm David, I wouldn't want your brain damaged.
Maybe Harvard should be informed that even the UK House of Commons has just voted to drop CBT and GET.
I wish this chap well with his struggle to det well. However, ther more I consider it the more out of place it seems to me for a support charity...
The key step is establishing whether or not a potential conflict results in a real conflict with the common good. That has to be decided by peer...
We have discussed this in the past and I think it is fair to say that being a patient is not a conflict of interest. The interest of the...
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