'Such is the nature of large pragmatic trials. ' Oops, Wessely does not even seem to know what a 'pragmatic trial' is. The one thing you could...
I see a logical error here. The issue of informed consent is only different for children because it is assumed that they may not be old enough to...
I didn't say anything about him paying for the beer!
'Last comment then that’s it. I didn’t mean to trigger all this but have followed your career with interest since those happy days at Lamar which...
As Sarah says, simply because the rule is they have to tick a box in a certain time so a cheap 'service' that gets patients out of the hands of...
'I continue to believe they did a good job with the trial and that it was carried out to a high standard the data is sound even if the results...
I would be worried that this 'frailty' label is pretty vague and like 'fatigue' may just confuse everything. Just as you do not treat all fatigue...
Trying to exemplify humility ain't quite the same as being humble (especially if you lecture people on human nature along the way). Us professors...
What is useful about flagging up this document is that it makes it completely transparent that those in charge of PACE and IAPT do not understand...
Nice to see Mike Godwin engaging. This last bit does sound a little bit like teaching granny to suck eggs though. The PWME who have been pointing...
Proven shingles in a 9/10 year old should definitely be investigated by a clinical immunologist for immunodeficiency syndromes.
Sterling work. @Robert 1973 (And thanks for the book, which should be home soon.)
I might also comment that this has nothing to do with agreement about theories of treatment. It is just pointing out that the trials of CBT and...
'I know some basics about research methodology, and I've exposed bad research a time or two, but I'm not at all qualified to assess the claims in...
Shingles in childhood is very uncommon. It will occur in young people who have immunodeficiency because of chemotherapy for leukaemia for...
A nice paper. I see Indigo has got theURL for everyone to see. Basically it shows that IAPT is hopeless for the conditions that CBT is supposed to...
A nice abstract. I will presumably be able to get at this through college but it takes me a while to get through the system. This is presumably...
Undegenous retroviruses, ERV. Like mitochondria they are bits from elsewhere that got incorporated over the millennia.
My understanding is that we are all riddled with bits of retrovirus and it is entirely normal. For instance a common form of the complement factor...
It shows that the people who did better did better than the people who didn't do so well. That is not a very useful conclusion.
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