It would be interesting to know the history but my impression is that the interactions between Charles Shepherd and the Forward ME people and...
The problem is that the processes of muscle use involve chemical changes that will re-equilibrate within five minutes at most. A purely energy...
Yes, I took that as read. I guess the same applies to a large extent in the stroke case. The aim is to prevent a cycle of spasm. Whether you can...
That would be analogous to the more direct reflex effect with pain.
I think energy is unlikely to be the problem. There is no evidence for a problem with energy severe enough to explain the symptoms of ME/CFS. In...
Not a shred of evidence for that as far as I know. It is so sad to see medical science swamped by studies that try to answer questions that have...
What I am unsure about is why amino acid levels that feed into TCA should be low if PD is blocked. Doesn't this require a compensatory up...
Cochrane is not fit for purpose but the reasons behind that, as I indicated, are to do with a completely different political story than the one...
These people understand the arguments perfectly well but allow their motivations to override their reasoning. Maybe this is a different sort of...
But to be devil's advocate - who else was persuaded by this? Everyone sensible in the ME/CFS world already thought PACE was rubbish. Everyone dumb...
Who is the audience though? Everyone involved has made up their mind one way or another. The public aren't going to see much of a story in...
Pretty much every trainee that I have worked with understands the essential critique. It is, after all, the reason why we spend millions on...
But if we send them a copy that won't be public, will it? Cochrane see their analysis of exercise as something quite separate from the SMC...
But I don't think that is actually true David. I submitted my testimony to NICE without any reference to the data revelations. NICE put PACE...
But, over and above the arguments given, that is just another appeal to authority. George doesn't actually mention why the trial was a...
I don't think it made any difference in reality, David. It may have provided information on how they were able to make statements about 'recovery'...
OK but that is actually wrong too. The poor methodology and invalidity of the results is transparent from the original Lancet article - which was...
I don't know. Monbiot raises no evidence that Cochrane do not have in front of them. He mentions David Tuller so will be seen as part of the...
George knows about this. In fact some members have had quite lengthy discussions with George and the material in the latest article reflects that....
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