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That is exactly what they did. They place patients in a particularly nasty double-bind, where the patient cannot safely give answers that are both true and acceptable. It is astounding that they have got away with it for so long, and speaks volumes about just how poor can be the oversight of...

Yay for Amy. :) Though there is one detail in the article that needs correcting. Public formal criticism of PACE began no later than when it was first published in early 2011, including via letters to the Lancet (some of which, to the Lancet's credit, they did accept and publish on the formal...

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A giant steaming turd looks like heaven to a dung beetle.

Yep. This is all just obvious propaganda tactics from Sharpe. Sneer, smear, misdirect, misrepresent, obfuscate, etc. He is running through the whole standard playbook. I don't hear a man confident in his position. I hear a man who is getting desperate. A man who knows that he is only one...

I thought the whole Type A / Type B personality paradigm had been discarded?

Yay Sweden. :thumbup:

Apple juice is a laxative. What that is symbolic of is another matter. :jawdrop:

I certainly don't. Mostly coz I don't have a Twitter account. :p

Looxury.

If it isn't for CFS or ME patients, then why did PACE use fitness tests? Or any objective tests of activity capacity? Almost the only thing I agree with Wessely and Chalder about is that increasing activity capacity must be the ultimate goal of treatment. And that is objectively measurable in a...

Big fan, but still "chronically ill with CFS/ME" Yeah, that really makes sense. :rolleyes:

It's a fiendish problem for science. Are reviewers going to have to be paid? Do we in effect need a class of professional reviewers?

A not unknown pathway in the world of politics, start some flavour of hard left, and go right over time, sometimes a long way.

Slightly politically left myself (by Australian standards). But the left has to take some blame for the current disrespect for epistemology via their post-modern nonsense during the 70s and 80s. Oh, I understand that there is no view from nowhere. But that doesn't mean there are no standards by...

Any remaining doubt about their lack of integrity and honour vanished with that stunt from them. It was a bald face lie.

Who is reviewing the reviewers?

Definitely a step in the right direction, whatever the reasons and however reluctantly they are taking it. But only a step. The first part of that statement is actually quite good. It goes against what the PACE crowd are saying about patients paying too much attention to their bodies. But the...

I'm in, as long as I can take one for a test drive first.

Fixed it for you. Well, we used to, and probably not even then. It's not like women are a recent invention. It's more that men just haven't ever been bothered to actually read the instruction manual. But women already knew that.