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That horrifying moment when the ER wheels out a liaison psychiatrist to deliver the news that there is, in fact, nothing wrong with you.

Sounds like a very active retirement!

Being retired or leaving an institution doesn’t absolve you of your duties as principal investigator. Since publications are still coming out such as the long term follow up paper clearly one or more of the investigators is still managing the database. This is yet another lie they’re spinning to...

Very satisfying read, the opponent got blown out. Unfortunately Rowe is guilty of the exact same blind spots as Sharpe when it comes to his own aetiological claims (circulatory/orthostatic).

Because if you went and reanalysed Lancet publications in accordance with their respective statistical analysis plans, there’d be hardly anything left on the Lancet website after all the retractions.

Psychotherapy is more than just harmless buffoonery. It is harmful for people with actual brain diseases like mood disorders (not talking about the worried well who just need someone supportive to chat with) and should be regulated. Imagine having a biological problem in the brain and someone is...

Somebody should issue an executive order banning these annoying smartass trial acronyms. On the other hand, they are kind of a useful heuristic in filtering out stupid research without having to even read the abstract.

Words fail me.

Unfortunately that’s all research is these days with rare exceptions. Almost every paper I read on pubmed makes me disgusted and demoralised.

Right, and even BPS researchers now argue against their early claims by claiming that (alleged) treatment effect of CBT/GET is not mediated by increased fitness which is how they are able to dismiss no improvement on fitness measures. GET is just graded exposure therapy.

No.

Is this the same methodology as the Japanese PET study?

That was my default assumption too but thanks for the informed opinion, reassuring to know. I wasn’t going to touch AZ anyway. In my country, AZ is only a minority of the vaccine inventory so getting something else shouldn’t be an insurmountable obstacle. Sorry to hear you were treated like...

As someone who falls into that demographic group + my antiphospholipid syndrome, I am worried about these reports. But as an ME/CFS patient, I am also worried about ending up in a dirty, noisy hospital abusive staff with covid, or dying from it. So it's hard to know what to do.

Of course, we've all dealt with really low quality people who became tenured professors because the schmoozed the right people in power. I think sadly though to most people his credentials will appear impressive and they will believe him when he says that Long Covid is fake and that he recovered...

There were stories like that coming out of Norway after unblinded studies of rituximab. Controlled studies showed it was a placebo effect. Surely as a professor of medicine he cannot be this naive.

The WSJ oped section is really bad. Thankfully it's behind a paywall so its societal reach is pretty limited. In Europe, the most progressive publications like the Guardian have been atrocious in their coverage of us, with an unrelenting pro-BPS editorial line. I don't think we have any friends...

Maybe this is what's behind the BPS craze claiming that 60% (or whatever made-up number) of GP visits are due to all-in-the-mind symptoms. Maybe they want a CBT therapist - or, heck, why not the receptionist - to be authorised to deny you the ability to even get an appointment based on any "risk...

Interesting and encouraging to hear. Here on the other side of the pond it most definitely is the prevailing view. I don't think the BPS view of things would get dislodged from its pedestal even if PACE got retracted, which it never will anyway. They would just fall back on the Cochrane review...

This is astonishing. I suppose if you a priori disregard the decades-long consistent pattern of patient reports that doing exactly what is being suggested here made them worse or even bedridden then yeah sure there is no evidence that it causes harm.