Question for moderators: perhaps it would be good to have a subforum/topic that focuses on trial methodology so that these discussion threads are...
@Brian Hughes
In short, I think research on absurd ideas might be useful to show flaws in study designs that psychology accepts as valid.
I thought this was interesting, thanks to Cyrus (EDIT: and Matthew Dalby) for highlighting this on Twitter. I'll try to explain briefly what this...
Fibromyalgia was assessed not by clinical examination but by a questionnaire (ACR survey criteria) where patients are said to have fibromyalgia if...
Here are more frustrating quotes from the article, including a reference to the PACE trial "The high symptom overlap between these syndromes and...
Quotes: "Patients were included if they had debilitating symptoms suggested by either themselves or the referring clinician as being attributed...
Apparently, there "no evidence that the bacterial complex that causes acute Lyme disease – Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (B. burgdorferi s.l.) –...
Objectives(s): To characterise the clinical profile, aetiology and treatment responsiveness of ‘Australian Lyme’, or Debilitating Symptom...
[MEDIA] 1) The data reported by Dr. Dane Cook in this CDC call from 13 May 2021 is pretty interesting. He was able to analyze the results of...
Interesting. There was recently an opinion piece in the New York Times that argued that long covid was psychosomatic because most patients did not...
I think this would be nearly impossible to do because in a control group there will also be patients where nothing happens and others where there...
The headline should not be that patients are upset but that certain interest groups are sabotaging a NICE guideline that was three years in the...
I find it unfortunate that the debate shifts to whether ME is psychological or physical. Which ends in Chalder saying: "This kind of dualistic...
The article lists studies that reported altered metabolites in ME/CFS and fibromyalgia. It then argues that "induced pluripotent stem cells"...
Looks like a really great article. There aren't many journalists who get so many of the issues right. Last year Chivers won the Royal...
She was talking about theoretical examples, not actual cases if I understood correctly.
There is also this document dated 22/07/04 which states: "There is no disease - you have a right to full health. This is a good news diagnosis....
On twitter, Chris Ponting clarified that the data included the rare and nonrare mutations of IDO2. [MEDIA] [MEDIA]
Is this the patient booklet that you mean or were there others?...
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