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I still don't understand why people conclude that fatigue sensation is "protective"? Pain is protective. Fatigue sensation is something else. We know that fatigue sensation is associated with uncertainty about the level of motor units recruited to perform a movement at a specific force. Which is...

She can't answer the question because it would force her to admit she actually agrees with some points of the 'activist' criticism.

Curious. I hope they actually work though and don't just contribute to tablet-dropped-on-face injuries.

There is no elephant in the room, what the hell are you talking about!?!

More nonsense about the sense of fatigue being "protective" in the abstract. The sense of pain is protective, but fatigue is not pain... The brain does work in a predictive/anticipatory manner, but it is a non-sequitur to suggest this is why cognitive behaviour therapies and stress relief...

It sounds more like a cover-up. "Finalising" the review doesn't take two months, unless the dispute has not yet been resolved.

He's suggesting that the 'pacing' arm was an active control group that magically controlled all of the possible biases, despite lack of blinding. He also hypothesises that patients had a more positive view of 'pacing' compared to CBT or GET that would translate into greater bias. Of course we...

They're close minded scientists. Babies have curiosity that these people seem to lack.

That is pretty much the difference as far as I am aware.

As they say, it's who you know, not what you know/do...

Where did these emails come from? I'm glad Tovey is not bending, but I wonder if they authors are expecting his replacement to be a push-over? I agree "minimal important clinical differences" cannot be defined as something so trivial and more importantly, clinical differences need to be...

Hopefully they will grant your request in good faith!

Just don't sign up for the CAKE trial...

https://www.meassociation.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/MEA-Petition-Comments-24.07.17-1.pdf Change.org petition "The NICE guideline for CFS/ME is unfit for purpose and needs a complete revision"

:rolleyes: It's pointless reading too much meaning from tweets like that.

Basically questionnaire answers were correlated with questionnaire answers. The mistake the researchers are making is assuming these questionnaire answers are not biased.

They most likely will still publish something even if it is a null result. (which wouldn't surprise me, unfortunately)

This is what she said on the SMC site: "The gains for patients in this study do seem solid, however, I am still rather uneasy because while the patient allocation and statistical analysis of the trial appear to be done to a high standard, the intervention that was assessed is commercial and...

One thing that I'd like to point out to anyone wishing to write a retort: Try to avoid making your reply about ME or CFS. It is not just about us. My second piece of advice is to not debate them on their (biased) terms. They wish to characterise the argument around the controversy of explained...

Right. "illness without disease" is nonsense. If one does not believe in any sort of magical mind-body dualism, then there necessarily must be demonstrable pathology. Even in say, behavioural disorders, there is still pathology within the body. Anything else is dualism.