I started looking at METRIC and posted some comments here:...
tbh, I was expecting more bad coverage than good. This is a weird situation for journalists to cover, and I see this debate as being part of us...
Thanks to everyone who put work into this debate. Especially those who have taken a leading role to work with Monaghan, but also everyone else who...
Looks like it's open access, so you just had to click on the full text link in the top right of that page. Direct link:...
I'm expecting the Science Media Centre crew to be working behind the scenes at this point, rather than doing more that risks making them the...
I'm sure they're planning to push-back on this and present it as a dangerous example of Post-Truth politics & emotion threatening Science. I...
I hope Monaghan has been briefed on the Cochrane issues - if so she should be able to knock back any attempt to defend PACE/CBT/GET with reference...
House of Commons briefing for the debate: http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CDP-2019-0014/CDP-2019-0014.pdf This is what...
I hope that any reference to Cochrane's work includes reference to this note on the Larun exercise review:
I've just been re-reading the motion and thinking about it, and I think great care is needed with this bit: "supports the suspension of Graded...
I agree with most of that, and maybe I should have been clearer that he said 'condition' not 'illness' (I'm not sure it makes much difference to...
Is there a full list of the signatories somewhere? Nina Andresen seems less than impressive:...
Contrasting a psychological illness with "a real illness" in the second paragraph seems an unfortunate use of language.
I reckon most people would realise that my use of 'scumsuckers' to describe people we should be trying to communicate gently with was intended as...
Creating any sort of unified media response from patient charities is going to be more difficult while we still do not know where Action for ME...
Thanks for all of the work you've done David! If you don't mention Esther Crawley's name, than how will people googling her find it?! It's...
I expect that the PACE lot will do their best to present this as being dangerous political interference in science, like climate change deniers....
This isn't of huge interest, but I thought I'd post up for newer members who might be interested in reading a short summary from Sharpe. I find...
That parliament website confused me too, but I think that the 'main chamber' section lists all the main chamber's business that day, rather than...
Great work - thanks so much for all your campaigning Mike.
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