Hilda raises it in her blog and the letter is really a pointer to her blog. Mentioning the Wise piece is just an excuse for raising the topic with...
I actually see it the other way around. If a BMJ reader sees a title about 'Cochrane's failure on ME/CFS' they will think 'Oh yeah, been there,...
It might be, but at least half the point of submitting this is to expose the BMJ editorial office to the arguments. I am not in favour of...
Perhaps I should make it 'would have been' (now offered).
Do be as critical as you can. I want it to be as crisp as possible, if I can get around to the sending process.
It's from the second reference in the text, which is Bastian. Maybe this is clearer: The international healthcare community needs to be aware of...
Well I guess I could add that in as another dud since cuts in funding would not (or should not) have affected the project once set up. But it...
Yes, it is pretty weird to see better with glasses upside down, although it might occur if there is different astigmatism in each eye. (I am not...
Thanks both, that was it. I am floating the idea of writing to the BMJ Editor thus or some such: Edit: I am updating this draft as comments come...
Can anyone point me to where Hilda made that remark about treatment advocates blocking the project?
At some point somebody needs to say who blocked the re-write. It wasn't a robot. It was a human being. They need to be named and shamed. Where is...
It seems a fair account of the situation but to my mind lacks bite. Where is the comment that there was a 'full on attempt to block the project...
News Chronic fatigue syndrome: Outcry over Cochrane decision to abandon review of exercise therapy BMJ 2025; 388 doi:...
I think that is what was done with the Leeds UK Biobank data, with 2000 ME/CFS cases and probably 20,000 controls. If I remember rightly it did...
I may have misremembered but I think we had looked at this study and somebody did try to check it with another cohort and it didn't pan out.
Absolutely. Although one could perhaps insist that it was thinkings popping in and out transiently. A string of pearls (to quote James) rather...
Yes, but they rolled the dice a million times.
This is the study with 40 ME/CFS cases I think - which seems unlikely to be reliable evidence for a link. The investigation of the mutation does...
That does not surprise me at all but of course if they are physical just like other causes in the body then surely it is just the body doing its...
I don't think there is any reason to think the B or plasma cells are abnormal, just that the selection processes have been skewed. B and plasma...
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