The manuscript is decent but if you can't achieve significance with 49/48 patients, well, I doubt the therapy is very good.
See also: What is “evidence” in psychotherapies? Scott O. Lilienfeld https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wps.20654?af=R
Despite all the rhetoric, rates of antivaxxers are not increasing and vaccination rates are at or near all time highs in almost all countries...
Sure, "pragmatic" trials can only ever be considered 'suggestive' quality evidence (along with case studies and pilot studies). The question is...
Most likely explanation is that it is a coincidence, with natural remission. I'd be very sceptical of anything less than a blinded pilot study.
There was substantial drop out rates, it is hard to say if this biased the results. I don't understand why they didn't include T2 results in...
So you've been talking to another Snow Leopard behind my back!?! :jawdrop: What are friends for, if not giving fake awards?
If professionals aren't serving the needs of their clients, then who are they serving?
Getting your mates to award you a prize is a great idea! Looking forward to my 'best talking snow leopard' award from you guys!
NICE won't change their mind until the article is retracted. I'd bet a reasonable amount of money on it. Those in charge of government policy...
Nope. The average medical practitioner (for example, the GP I saw who looked up CFS on Wikipedia) does not look very deep at the evidence and...
I wonder, do these authors intend to publish this in a scholarly journal?
No news is good news?
They're afraid of the big loss of face, namely they'd have to admit they had an article up for years that didn't meet their quality standards....
The issue is that the (former) editor was demanding changes or a voluntary retraction by the authors (to avoid loss of face for both the journal...
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence... The woman in that phantom pain case study had a hand previously and the burning pain could...
Hi all, keep in mind, the author of this paper is a disciple of Ted Kaptchuk and his "powerful placebo" pseudoscience....
I don't understand, are they retrospectively trying to block access to those two documents?
No, they're saying they aren't going to include trials without a comparison group (eg "treatment as usual"). What is notable is not that they...
If you want to claim that, you have to test it with a model - how much of the variance does it predict? How sensitive and specific is the...
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