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Seems to have been an unhealthily cosy relationship between @Action for M.E., Bristol ME clinic (EC?) and the DWP here, especially when you read "Support, Empower and Employ people with M.E.", which to my mind sounds like double-speak meaning get them off benefits whether it's humane or not...

They must be circulars ;)

Especially as the error margin between being harmed, or not, could be extremely narrow, and may well have delays between causes and consequential harms. Might be clairvoyance rather than medical skill that is needed.

It's great that he posted this indictment of himself from an academic colleague. And what has the "long retired" bit got to do with anything? :)

I'm not the slightest bit expert on trials nor medicine, but from what I've learned from this forum and PR, it really doesn't take too much nous to see some of the most blatant flaws that have been highlighted in PACE. And that's not at all just blind acceptance of what others have said. The...

Great news @JaimeS :)

As usual, a characteristic partial truth from MS, strongly implying an untruth. True: we reject the findings. Omission: the reason we reject the findings is because the science is dog poo. Implied untruth: we don't like the findings because we are biased.

There was a commenter responding to one of @dave30th's blogs (I think), who said they were in the GET arm of PACE, and when their heart rate went through the roof the staff tried to dismiss it as a faulty monitor because that result was not possible. Apparently annoyed when participant would not...

Surely it is mostly down to being open label with subjective self reported outcomes, compounded by what amounted to selectively applied propaganda.