I just skimmed the transcript as well, neither MS or PH stated anything along those lines on the radio show.
The manuscript is strange, with White simultaneously trying to justify both lumping (CFS with other medically unexplained syndromes, Chronic...
I don't know about updates, but this is the old link:...
There was a review of medical research in Australia over 10 years ago which suggested funding based on societal disease burden - and it was...
It is the "Chronic Pain Acceptance Scale" with 'pain' altered to 'symptoms'. That might be why some of the questions don't make total sense, and...
Keeping records of how you answer the questionnaires is smart! It is something I recommend all participants of clinical trials to do - also for...
So they have to drug her so that she can cope with the distress that they are causing her? FFS
That's awful, it boggles the mind why people running trials like this seem to lack empathy for their patients...
Note how patients were not asked about: - understandability - relevance to their personal experience - whether they believe change on a particular...
What do you mean by that? There is no evidence that antibiotic-refractory Lyme arthritis is due to chronic borreliosis, but instead some other...
It's funny how the 'expert' in that article is a historian, not a medical scientist... I don't believe in "chronic lyme", but patients do have a...
Exactly. The NIH has a mandate to consider equity, but as far as I know, the MRC does not and the NHMRC has formally rejected equity.
The first step is acknowledging it... Because only the very highest quality applicants who think they have a very high chance of success even...
No, I agree that there is a connection between public and private funding - pilot studies are overwhelmingly privately funded in fields that don't...
The problem is the quantity of replies seems to prove the point to those people who are unable or unwilling to look at the details.
I agree. If there is a plan, I think the goal is to influence Cochrane's editors. Basically they're trying to suggest that it is not in Cochrane's...
Which illness is likely to have the most grant applications? Illness A: $100 million of funding with an above average success rate. Illness B: $5...
What is "clinically important" is qualitative, it cannot be defined by some arbitrary statistical procedure and most importantly, it needs to be...
Yes, Sharpe has committed two fallacies - first, the red herring approach, instead of countering the claims about how the data and methodology...
The problem for them is that we have seen the emails of the former editor - we can use that to show that complaints about methodology are quite...
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