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I ignored the rule in my awe.

I think I may be able to go on Thursday. I need to find out the procedure and how early to get there.

Yes, I got it from Esther12. But lets give Graham his due, this is so succinct, yet gives every detail.

I think it would. Doctors spend most of their time with their heads down trying to have a quiet life grinding away at what they are supposed to do. If Simon Wessely says CBT and Get are good that will do. They assume that nobody outside medicine is interested. But if some smart literate lawyer...

Is anyone able to flag up Graham's video for Mike Godwin. And ask in the friendliest of teasing terms why we need to bring in Popper or even 'models' when Graham has got it sorted.

It is absolutely brilliant, @Graham. I actually thought the lighting was a touch of genius. There is a bright spot on the background to the left of you which somehow takes the piss out of all these arty farty lighting engineers. (Not that I am suggesting that any other aspect of your video takes...

Yes, I don't actually think it crossed Wessely's mind that Godwin would even look at why he was being cited. I think Wessely just thought he would send one of those tweets that 'famous' (sort of) people send to other famous people, to say ' hi, famous person, I just quoted you, you might...

Yes, I did offer but got no reply. Pressing Hunt for funding may backfire because Sir Simon will pop up and say yes we are greatly increasing funding for treatment with the new injection of cash from the Prime Minister - with IAPT. Hunt will be able to say that all is in hand, Carol, we already...

Maybe it was last week. I think we had a thread on it? Somebody did a piece in February that showed that responses to IAPT were 9% instead of 50% and there was a second article in reply to some commentary just recently. Sorry, I cannot remember the name or reference at the minute.

A work of art, @Graham. You are even better than Ian McKellen in the aeroplane safety video. How did we miss that it was so simple? You must have been a very good maths teacher.

So when Wessely comes up with this strange apparently unsubstantiated statement that CBT on its own is no good but it works with occupational... he is not meaning occupational therapy but a visit to an 'employment practitioner'? Maybe he is happy to give ground on PACE right left and centre...

So now the truth is out!

Yes, and I agree with most of that but it has nothing to do with being conservative. It has to do with with no funding. The expenditure per head on health care in the UK is about 70% of what it is in most other western Europe countries. Since a considerable proportion of health costs are fixed...

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This I think is the nub. A misconstruance of Richard Edwards's work on training muscle and a false analogy with exposure therapy.

My comments had nothing to do with being known or unknown or where you live. Injuries have nothing to do with circulating immune complexes either. Germany tends to have a high rate of pseudoscientific alternative therapy use in rheumatology. And it has nothing to do with me being conservative...

I think there may be two different arguments that may get conflated. The important one for me is this. Because people recruited for PACE knew they might have to do GET the cohort cannot be taken as representative because people who knew that exercise made them worse (or had heard so) would be...

I think Trish is right, for the reasons I posted. Phobic fears, where the person readily understands that the phobia is ungrounded in harm are quite different from fears or concerns about things where they have reason to think their is a grounding in harm. I agree that if the PACE authors'...

I like to be honest, @Trish, as you know. The chances of anything in this mixture being of any use to pains and brain fog through any specific means are about 0.00001%. The chances that this mixture acts as a placebo are about 99.99999%. For a company to claim that their oral enzyme product...

Sorry @nonstopflu, but this is all pseudoscience - complete nonsense stuff. (Sorry to be blunt but I spent my research career on immune complexes and suchlike and worked out the mechanism of inflammation in RA, which indirectly is why I am here.) Circulating immune complexes do occur in...