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When I did a review in about 1995 people just volunteered to do a review and submitted it for approval. They were not necessarily paid. However, junior academics would get credit for doing reviews. More recently I think the centres have regular incoming funds and put staff members on to reviews...

It doesn't really matter where. Probably the best idea would be to gather together a few like minded people and then see if more like minded people want to join in. The landscape has changed at CMRC sufficiently for it to be possible to do that without appearing to be in conflict with CMRC...

Yes, it is a pity twitter oversimplifies so much but some important points made. As Simon says, if subjective reports and objective measures do not match it does not necessarily mean the objective measure is the wrong one. This again emphasises to me the importance of having a measure that...

It may well be that members do not want to engage in anything that threatens to upset any apple carts the way Gotzsche likes to. I also wonder if this was a secret ballot or a show of hands. It is interesting to ponder why people do Cochrane reviews. I am pretty sure it used to be mostly a...

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My arithmetic suggests that the Board had at most 8 elected members, including Gotzche. Of these one was sacked and four out of a maximum of seven others resigned in sympathy. It might have been four out of six. That does not make Gotzsche sound like a heretic outsider. The majority of elected...

I have left a comment much to this effect on Munafo's page on Wonkhe about the manifesto. It is not clear that these comments will be posted up.In fact i doubt they would want to post mine, since it is in a sense a personal message.

The piece by Munafo and Bishop et al is all very well but I think it could be described as 'fluff-wiping'. (The practice of starting to do a job by picking something up, wiping the fluff off and then putting it down and forgetting to do the job.) Pretty much everything in the manifesto is...

Maybe this: https://wonkhe.com/blogs/a-manifesto-for-reproducible-science/

I could not see any link to a manifesto? Do you mean the BRCT website or Munafo's network? So far I id not think Munafo was linked to BRTC.

The more I see of this the more it looks as if this is all part of a deliberate policy. The blurb talks of 'high quality pragmatic randomised controlled trials' but there is no such thing. A pragmatic trial is something quite different from a standard RCT. What they mean by pragmatic here is...

Nice idea Graham but I agree you need to tell him the punch line at the start. Something like: I am pleased to see you are setting up an organisation for 'co-ordinating shared training and best practice across research-intensive universities' but are you aware that your own BRTC at Bristol is...

Not at all. All these things tell us something useful about other people's perceptions. I noted, on the topic of freeze that someone at the CMRC meeting is talking of total body cryotherapy or something. It will be interesting to know what that is about.

Sort of great-grandma-traumababble?

My impression is that the main players still thought they were untouchable until about November 2017. Up until that point Cawley was giving lectures on how to evade awkward questions about your research -presumably thinking she was succeeding.

I think the 'loophole' will be the attitude of a chairman of a surveillance committee. Backed up by the attitude of one or more journal editors.

Anti-muscarinic antibodies are notorious for being pretty meaningless, with regular false positives. The differences between ME and controls for these antibodies do not at all suggest that they are relevant to symptoms directly. If they were one would expect a much more black and white difference.

The irony is that an organisation that includes people who are prepared to, and allowed to, criticise the output of said organisation in public is exactly the sort of organisation that gathers trust. The expulsion is a PR disaster in exactly the terms they seem to have been trying to promote...

A very sane and perspicacious nutcase I think. Certainly not someone to expel from your board if already on it. At least he is up front about his position.

Yup. It isn't a legal issue anyway, it is a moral one.