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Too bad he maybe did the very least in the circumstances and won't be deserving of any credit while being subjected to harsh criticism and howling by the ideological brigade. It's pretty obvious he would be vindicated with time if he took meaningful steps. Or maybe he did and we'll know later...

Transparency is a beautiful thing. There should be more of it. In fact, there should be only it. Secrecy is a pillar of mediocrity.

Pretty sure that's the one. :thumbsup:

More specifically it literally contradicts the very model used in PACE for the GET arm. They contradict their own words. Not someone else's words or general principles but the very hypothesis they presented and claimed to be testing. They say it plainly that it's BS, merely a convenient lie...

If not one of us, someone will make those comments and do so in bad faith so this is the way to go. Being rigorous is a pretty good response to a reckless system of willful disregard for human life.

Evidence of which is the complete absence of any official complaints... because there is no official system to make complaints so none are ever recorded. This is really amounting to the very worst of the kind of system that created the old asylum systems, horrors officially condoned simply...

When asked, the NHS clearly stated they do not care, that it's up to the clinics and here we see, once more, that they don't care either. There is no meaningful oversight or monitoring of these clinics. However that may be, this needs to be escalated since it's technically not legal to do that...

[insert emoji and/or whatever conveys the feeling of the world's longest sigh ever recorded] Sometimes it feels like the "duty" part of duty of care is mostly carried by its scatalogical definition. What a freaking mess. Everything that can't be structured in objective standard measurements is...

Ah, the good old "if we don't write it down, we can't be held accountable for it" tactic, a solid move in the "what if we we don't care about things we don't like?" strategy. I don't think that approach is covered in the scientific method. Or maybe it is, possibly in its unwritten parts. Sneaky...

If those flaws bothered them they would not have published it in the first place. Fools, not idiots. They know. They just don't care. Assumptions change everything, and here the assumption is "there is no disease, you can aim for full recovery". Medical ethics don't apply when a disease is...

Interesting to see that the concept of functional neurological thingies is that old. 1914. Impressive how this field manages to constantly recycle old ideas by tacking on a post-it that it's the same, but not the same.

As usual: And there may be dragons there. There aren't, but it's fair to say that there may. My, my my. But this our old friend, rousing reassurance. It is indeed a very old friend. Also not a very useful one. One that may keep their opinion to themselves and leave those... more capable... to...

As far as I am concerned, those two papers are part of the same cinematic universe.

In what way has it been shown that "psychological and social factors" play a role in fibromyalgia? It's a long-held assumption but it has never actually been demonstrated beyond the level of "may" or "could". That's not a good basis for guidelines or classification. By that principle astrology...

That's a weird test. It's only appropriate for severe dementia. It would barely tell apart someone who is so feverish they are almost delirious, if at all. That still does not make someone on the worst day of the worst flu of their life able to work normally. Some of those tests a mouse could...

Wat? But. How does that even work? The sheer intellectual laziness is almost impressive.

Fortunately I had it handy! Oh, wait, that's the one you had in mind. But it does say the reasonably active part I remembered. It's pretty remarkable that they completely contradict the very model they proposed for why GET is worth testing. They clearly know their model is BS and just the least...

I would have chosen an option for always, not necessarily months. It's been there for years but I couldn't tell when it began. I also think it's both ears but frankly it's hard to tell. I also have a feeling of pressure and warmth in my ears, pretty much constant but sometime it's more...

So much for informed consent. Given the rates of harm are consistently found to be around 50%, with a further 25-30% or so who find it useless, reporting zero harm while doing no quality control to speak of is a complete failure. The claims of safety are made without any rigorous process and...

That and the 9/11 WTC health problems. Holy crap does it look bad with hindsight. Says a lot that it still makes no difference to his credibility. But then again the UK government formally apologized for Camelford and he suffered no loss of credibility either. Almost as if his reputation was...