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A bit more football history. I've looked it up. It looks like woman's football became popular during WWI and attracted big crowds and continued to do so afterwards leading the the FA banning it in 1921 because of its continued success. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30329606 So when women...

I believe originally there was a high interest in womans football in the UK but the FA banned women from playing on any FA approved pitches until around 1974. Woman's football now has a long way to go to catch up in the UK but the big clubs are investing.

I was wondering this. They know there evidence is flimsy so they are renaming. There was a slideset pushing MUS clinics from Kings and similar institutions quoting PACE 22% recovery rate.

Some companies are building a very bad reputation for sexism in technology. Given the stories I've heard it is a big factor. Looking at how many quite poor male academics there are I would say it is partly sexism in the work place and partly due to women being put off science early (especially...

There is a definite shortage of women in technology and engineering jobs and the UK is particularly bad not sure about the Netherlands. Also I've thought at times there is an old boys network in promoting in some jobs in academia. I don't think it is necessarily world wide - I seem to remember a...

No I think an academic who worked in their law dept did.

They have SPSS licenses at least. With the fine data I extracted it from a Stata format using python (and I am not a python programmer) the instructions of how to do this are on stack exchange.

Before the information tribunal I remember tweeting an academic whose subject was ethics who was also on the QMUL council and he blocked me. But perhaps they know it won't go away as an issue and it will affect their reputations but I think this continued cover up will continue to do harm. I...

But i the Garbage Dept had a sub-department the called green bin collection and they closed then they wouldn't be able to avoid a FoI request because that part of the organisation no longer existed. They would be expected to provide the information having someone from a different dept now going...

I think they have got away with drawing a perimeter around the PACE group and treating them as a separate entity. It would be interesting to know the process by which they went about forming their argument. For example, did they just ask White who said no one could interpret it or did they ask...

It was a stolen tape recorder for PACE there was a previous incident of a stolen computer at Kings which appeared after a statistician challenged stats in Wessely's paper. My interpretation was not that they had lost the data but that they couldn't interpret the bits. From my perspective...

I think the ICO may be setting a very dangerous precedent in that QMUL are the institution responsible but they are allowing them to localise the problem to a given team and claim that team didn't exist. QMUL clearly have employees with the skills to access the files and do the work. Can you...

Kings and Oxford will also have the data. I don't think Larun would be in a position to give data since it would be given to her under a confidentiality agreement. Of course if they believed the data contained personal information they would have breached the data protection act by giving it to...

Remember they are selling services to the NHS based on claims made in the pace trial. That's what one of the latest MUS slide sets suggested.

They seem desperate to cover up even at the risk of saying they can't manage trial data properly. If the data was not adequately documented then it suggests they did not have adequate systems to ensure that the results they quote are correct. As well as White still being involved with new...

Also Dept of Business which I think gives budget to the research councils and dept of education which is responsible for universities. Questions should be asked about lack of governance and QMUL covering up.

I think they are a small charity set up by a couple of teenagers to help support other kids and teenagers with ME.

Yes I think so. I think most were just on the sf36. But the CFQ is such a terrible questionnaire I think any trial using it shouldn't be taken seriously.

I think it was 13% would have met one of the criteria at entry (specifically the sf36 or CFQ ones). Clearly no one met the CGI ones as this is a 'how much better do you feel after the trial' or if you didn't tell them 'how much better did the assessor think you felt after the trial' The Oxford...

I think we need to remember that the head of governance for the MRC went out of her way to back PACE. She dismissed complaints about outcome switching and she appeared in the information tribunal to stop data being released. The MRC and in particular their head of governance have been seen to be...