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Guardian today: Taxpayers are to be asked to help fund a £20bn a year injection of extra cash into the National Health Service by 2023-24 that will pay for thousands more doctors and nurses, while cutting cancer deaths and improving mental health services, Theresa May will say today. So that's...

The meme is obviously spreading. There is work to do!

A good point @BruceInOz, but is it as simple as that? The Standard Model and the chemistry that goes with electrons, photons and one or two quarks does not, as far as I know, adequately explain the latent heat of freezing of water. I agree that general everyday talk tends to stick with the naive...

You mean you haven't been caught out yet! You should be so lucky! I don't get life so easy.

About as much as the arnica in a homeopathic wine gum I would say.

De Kogelnik asked me if I would collaborate with him on a trial. But I could never pin him down to any sort of discussion about the scientific question it would answer. As far as I am aware he has treated several patients but not published anything.

Yes, it's weird until you read what the SMC actually is - an advertising agency for hire. It offers people the chance to educate the public in the right way to think about their branch of science. And the collection of 'right ways' to think about science makes pretty amusing reading.

My impression is that this is a good format for the next stage of awareness raising in Parliament. A debate in the House itself would have been under pressure of time and would have been hijacked by party political issues. Moreover, since there would be nothing to vote on in practical terms...

But money is money. The development of effective treatments for rheumatoid arthritis has not come from government money. Most of it was patients' own money given to charities for research - which is then research money. There is no other sort of research money. I was not intending to look down...

'In what twisted universe is this considered helpful to patients, or even sane?' In this twisted universe we live in, where health professionals who do not understand the basics of scientific methodology are persuading politicians to replace meaningful health care with a scam of monumental...

To me this is a stark indication of the way some doctors have their priorities wrong. I think Fluge and Mella spent about £2M on giving us reliable information about rituximab in ME - it does not work. I suspect that the private clinic has received more like £4M+ from patients, and this has told...

I absolutely agree. My original comment was not intended to indicate otherwise.

Maybe the authors answer their own question: 'Two randomized controlled trials have shown that hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) can induce neuroplasticity...' I see no reason why inducing neuroplasticity would bring back suppressed memories but it would of course make it much easier to...

What basic question have I avoided answering?

Dear @YaS, these quotes do not provide any perspective. They do not belong in science. They appear to be written by someone with an obsession with an idea and little understanding of the field they are discussing. One of the things that surprised me most when I first started coming to ME...

True.

My impression is that the pain at QMUL has been significant and the lesson learned. But then White has retired so QMUL is out of the picture maybe. Bristol is more concerning

The term explanatory was used to describe trials that aim to evaluate the efficacy of an intervention in a well-defined and controlled setting, whereas the term pragmaticwas used for trials designed to test the effectiveness of the intervention in a broad routine clinical practice. A pragmatic...

Not so sure. The quantum field theory of matter depends on charm through quantum chromodynamics. But the atomic model of matter was made obsolete when Rutherford split the atom. Atoms are mostly fiction, except for inert gases. Which is one of the reasons why I think the author of this piece...

I don't think that is a worry. If it is accepted that PACE was done badly then it will be accepted that any attempt to repeat it will have the same problems. Unless of course some very clever trial design is thought up. But the people who might want to do trials like this are not intelligent...