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Indeed. Perhaps we need to ask them to make a formal wager on such claims!

Psychologists love to point out how pseudoscientific MBTI is and how we should all abandon it. Conveniently, they leave out the fact that four out of the "Big Five" correlate with MBTI and it is easy to see why. Extraversion = Extraversion/Introversion scale Openness = Intuitive/Sensor scale...

If Cochrane reviews are just a rubber-stamping exercise, then it defeats the purpose. Cochrane was founded to rock the boat, though it seems many don't like it that way.

Interesting, I had occasional chest pains for about 2 weeks after the tests. I haven't heard of others reporting this. (I think mine were chest muscle related, not heart related though) and took me 3-4 weeks to return to previous level of functioning. I can't recommend the test either, if you...

G has a long track record of highly reasonable, high quality publications. He is becoming more critical as of late however. This particular issue (the HPV review), he seems to be supporting a colleague simply because Cochrane is moving away from scientific debate and measuring quality, and...

@MEMarge The criticisms by an exercise physiologist is certainly interesting - it shows that the GET used is really just a psychological therapy as it is not designed properly to improve fitness or seemingly even make sense to an exercise physiologist in this case.

Yes. Of course there is more to it as far as philosophy of science is concerned (there was a discussion about pan-critical rationalism on PR years ago). It's not just about the number of pegs, but how loose those pegs are. ;)

This article isn't too bad, could be a lot worse...

Reminds me of Ben Goldacre - talks a lot of sense, but has a blindspot when it comes to ME/CFS.

It doesn't count when 50,000 of them are your sock puppets! :p

I mentioned that study three posts before yours, and it was the reason why I put a special note about MS.

I think you have to exceed the anerobic threshold for some time on the first day though, I agree you can stop a bit past the threshold on the second day though. As far as a biomarker goes, it is uncertain whether it is a nonspecific marker for severe fatigue or chronic fatigue syndromes in...

Would be interesting to see if this is also associated with the early/acute development of other autoimmune diseases.

That is common throughout medicine and psychiatry and is not limited to us...

Michael Sharpe... But they've been saying it long before the PACE trial results were even published, so...

Horton has long been of the view that medical journals can and should push political views - according to the whims of the editor... The Lancet's history on the Israel/Palestinian conflict has been interesting... A view on this...

Try not to confuse increases in healthy controls due to increased familiarity with the test, versus a decrease in patients. I agree that statement is a little misleading and may be taken out of context by insurance lawyers and doctors who don't actually understand the science and don't read the...

I can't personally recommend doing it either, unless you have no other choice (eg insurance), or you really want to contribute to research. It is difficult and will lead to a temporary set back at the very least.

Good questions for which we would have to do more study to find out, though I think the latter (severe) is unethical to answer.

This manuscript is describing the practice protocol that they use and is not a systematic review of prior studies. The central replicated finding is a reduction of performance of patients at the ventilatory threshold on the second day. Other findings such as a reduction in VO2Max/VO2Peak on the...