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I wouldn't read it that way. I would see it as a call to understand mechanism with the second part separating out potential treatments from mechanism understanding.

Looks positive.

It affects this forum as well I've not had time to catch up with the act but need to soon for work. I believe the best practice for privacy has been to have opt in for contact rather than opt out for some time.

I think its a way to avoid proper scrutiny from the ethics committee. I had assumed that phase 1 trials were effectively testing feasibility. I did hear that Bristol Universities medical dept failed to get a 5 star rating and that Bristol has a habit of shutting non-five star rated...

I suspect that is a breach of the DPA unless the CCTV is collected for that purpose and people agree or are warned.

I think journals just seem to make up rules but never expect to take the difficult decisions to enforce them. They saw a get out with the response from Bristol so went with it.

If they have been hacked and your personal information disclosed one thing to ask for is that they pay for credit checking services.

He may be going on somewhere else to do more with ME. We need the best people to come in and they may not stay but if they make a difference whilst here and carry the message on to other places and other researchers then that is important.

I think also small initial trials often have better results than larger follow up trials (don't know why could be something to do with patient selection?)

I really don't like the argument that publishing minutes stops debate. One research project that I ran we have quarterly 2 day meetings most of that time would be discussion and not minuted. But we also had a formal project meeting where decisions, finance, milestones, changes to the project...

I took that more as a comment that it is not the ICO's job to judge the integrity of the researchers and that comments made in the judgement were not intended to do that. I tend to agree that people in authority should have their judgement and integrity challenged. But I think the ICO shouldn't...

I have issues with the feasibility study because of the trying it on children first. But I think the ethics committee really go it wrong in terms of allowing the change fro a feasibility study to a full trial. They should have treated it as a new application - also checking things like power...

He strikes me as someone who is ambitious. I wonder if he just felt he had set up some initiatives and that was as far as he could get. Sometimes different skills (and interests) are needed to set things up and to keep them running.

I think political pressure to take the issues seriously is a good idea. If I remember they had no justification for dismissing Courtney's comments which included pointing out their own outcome switching. I think we need to be careful about the nature of the pressure. Basically they have done...

@Graham looked at the funding figures for his video a while ago

I think that is great. I think there are serious questions about the approval of the outcome switching and what was given as reasons to the committees.

This is a claim that the PACE team made at the time of the information tribunal as well. I think the only thing they have published is their very poor review of GET which includes PACE figures but they gave it a high rating (as a quality trial) but then they also switched their review outcomes...

I'm not aware of that one. Do you have any pointers to information about it?

I think it is worth remembering that when the countess of Mar raise PACE in the house of lords she seemed like a lone voice. Reading the Hansard transcript it seems to have switched with various MPs attacking PACE and just the minister basically reading out a statement from QMUL in defense of...

I'm interesting in this one because I thought exercise burns remarkably few calories. But I think the brain is one of the organs that uses the highest number of calories. Given what the brain does it is remarkably efficient. But then maybe sedentary jobs don't really involve much thinking? I...