They forgot the *magic happens here* bit.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9712333/Four-Brits-develop-Guillain-Barr-syndrome-just-days-having-AstraZenecas-Covid-jab.html...
They're not saying patients never suffer from PEM, they're saying that some patients just happened to be suffering PEM (for whatever reason)...
The SARS outbreak in Hong Kong started in February 2003 and they discovered a link to palm civets in May 2003, so claiming it took 10 years is...
All of the potential measures are of low quality. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejp.1670
I disagree that it is the primary bias, though it is certainly one of the possible biases. "Expectancy" is often discussed as a mechanism for...
My personal preferred term is "randomised comparison trial", rather than "randomised controlled trial"...
I'm not sure how this paper is relevant to trials of CBT/GET, such as the PACE trial. The problem isn't "expectation"/expectancy effects. Indeed,...
Not serious shortcomings, no. Checking whether there was differential bias between the clinicians is possible, but this is not the same as being...
Sounds like what is wrong with traffic engineering. No other engineering profession would tolerate such high rates of injury and mortality...
Yes. Whether it was designed that way or not, encouraging patients to be more conscious and aware of their symptoms means they're much less likely...
The citation of the Ithaca College study brings up another potential confounding factor. The ramping of the workload can differ between...
As is often the case, the ones who frequently talk about the failure of cartesian dualism are closet dualists themselves.
Have you done the test yourself? How do you know what to expect? It is quite possible that participants were no longer encouraged once they had...
I talked to Max Nelson about this (several years ago). An increase in peak workload on subsequent tests is actually common in healthy people,...
That is what the evidence in this study suggests.
Simply put, this means that the level of cardiovascular fitness was not related to PEM in this group of patients.
It's funny that the journalists are not reporting the fact that one dose of Pfizer had greater effiacy against hospitalisation than two doses of...
If it was due to genetic factors, it could affect many cell types and still likely cause an imbalance in blood plasma...
What about a hypothetical circulatory "danger response" that has the function of lowering circulation through capillaries, with the purpose of...
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