Yes, the strict criteria in clinical trials is double-blinding or clear meaningful objective outcomes.
Only a poor tradesman blames their tools (in this case p-value). The problem is people making poor generalisations based on limited evidence, not...
It is quite clear they knew their results were going to be crap (reports from therapists and the FINE trial having null results) and that is why...
This is true, for biomarkers to be meaningful, there needs to be an impressive ROC - and of course the same is true for psychological associations...
Exactly. It would be fan-fucking-tastic if they worked!
This is correct, GET is a Cognitive-Behavioural-type therapy. The "effect" is the change on cognitions which results in a change on self-report...
[img] And as we know, Michael Sharpe is an expert on designing analyses to yield desired results.
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I had that severe vertigo very early on, but it passed after a few months.
All but one of those studies only tested urine or saliva... One of those studies tested blood in the morning and found that while patients had...
That is explicitly what psychiatrists care about - how patients feel about the illness. Central to the psychiatrist mindset is if patients say...
Yes. Vaccines are popular. Childhood vaccination rates continue to reach new highs across virtually all of the world, English speaking countries...
There is no evidence the amygdala is sharply aroused in CFS patients. The "sustained arousal" hypothesis (Wyller) and amygdala activation...
Simon Wessely gave the game away when he more or less said they had changed the outcomes so that the results "would be consistent with earlier...
That was my first guess too. Spin and mistruths similar to those that Michael Sharpe has stated in the media before.
I thought trial registration was invented back during the European renaissance? :laugh:
This is an excellent point. It is important that they are very specific when making claims about efficacy. I personally believe there are benefits...
Spin. Spin. Twirl. They can't be serious? Pull the other one! The problems of selective reporting was why databases of trial protocols were set up...
Classic tactics - defect our views to a strawman about debate about whether CFS is psychological or not. This debate is of course irrelevant....
Oh, that isn't the point. The goal is similar to startups - pay yourself a whole lot of investors money as an 'innovator', regardless of long term...
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