And they are very seldom challenged when interviewed. Speaking of which, did anyone hear Wessely and Prof Sami Timimi on the BBC Radio4 Today...
Although I agree with the rest of your post, I disagree with the sentence above. I have been pacing for most of the past 25 years, but my life is...
Thread about a Fiona Fox article for the Revolutionary Communist Party c.1996 for anyone who’s not seen it:...
I think they all know the value of being helpful to the SMC when it comes to promoting their own work. I imagine Carmine Pariante may have...
Funny that – when I think of the SMC, dysentery comes to mind. I was tempted to reply to Pariante’s tweet by saying: “This article appears to...
I’m not sure that’s correct. The paper shows no correlation between pre-illness psychosocial factors and persistent fatigue, but, as far as I...
As @Simon M points out, the researchers "measured psychosocial factors including childhood trauma before the interferon-alpha treatment started....
Hi @Amy Proal. Thanks for joining the forum. Great to have you here. I’ve not managed to read the paper yet but just looking at what @Hutan posted...
This is very good and very well written. I particularly like the tone. We all have to try so hard to moderate our language and bend over backwards...
Transcript from Hansard (https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2018-12-05/debates/AE0D2D86-28E1-40CC-A4E5-4DAC25733B52/Engagements): I fear he...
2006 response to draft guideline from Association of British Neurologists: ...which not only failed to provide any reliable evidence to support...
I agree. Also: 1) I understand that committee members should not be allowed to discuss the details of the NICE guildline meetings publicly...
The answer to my question seems to be yes. From Developing NICE guidelines: the manual
Perhaps @Jonathan Edwards could be persuaded to add this to his diary and ask her himself? I note that it is a UCL lecture series. I hope it...
Do lay members have the same voting rights as other committee members? Do we know if all the lay members are non-BPS? (I only know Adam and...
I don’t think that will be enough. This all feels very stage managed. They appear to be trying to make it looks as though they are listening to...
Yes, I would be very happy to have White, Sharpe, Chalder, Wessely and Crawley called as witnesses if we had Edwards, Crowhurst, Speight,...
MS: “Well CFS stands for Chronic Fatigue SYNDROME, and a syndrome defines a collection of symptoms, It’s not the same as a disease, where we know...
Kelland’s report states: The above suggests that Cochrane had made the decision to withdraw the review, and that it would not be reinstated...
Although this can’t be directly inferred from the available PACE trial data, one could also argue that it is when the therapies have been most...
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