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Yes, it's known as dog-whistling. Those who are meant to hear the real message.

I think this doublespeak is important to understand. Language is used in particular ways in psychiatry. No one any longer talks of delusions (which implies an imposition of values). They talk instead of 'beliefs'. So when a psychiatrist hears 'unhelpful beliefs', they understand that means...

On his website: 211 in total; 141 up to and including 2001. http://www.simonwessely.com/index.php/publications/papers-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/

Thanks. I'll look at that. I know Hardman has, but I don't recall any mention of his having done so. Yeah, I think that is a real element to it: they have benefited from therapy so tend to advocate for it and dislike the claim ME patients are somehow disparaging metal illness by rejecting the...

I knew Aaronovitch had talked about his being helped by therapy. I hadn't heard about Liddle. Would you have a link to something that mentions it, please?

I tried interesting Channel 4 News, both with Jackie Long and Cathy Newman, but no luck. Cathy passed it on to the science correspondent and he said nothing to see here, move along.

Porter always says the same thing. He usually mentions something about having a timeout every hour or something. I forget the detail.

I have continued working on this and had a long (friendly) exchange with the FOI department at North Bristol NHS Trust. The researchers have clearly tried to get the paper published but haven't been able to, despite some interest a year ago. The latest I have came today: I don't know whether...

(Accepted. Well, by this one at least. Hehe.) I think you're right it's probably been screened by lawyers. Hard to imagine how half his stuff gets published given that rule.

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It's a fair point and perhaps I could have said a little more on that. I have now added something to the post:

Excellent. Thanks.

Thanks, Andy.

OK, thanks, could you please then show me on that page where to enter the dates.

Could you please link to the search you conducted.

Anyone able to replicate this finding? I have been to the site and done a search. I get over 100 studies returned (many from China), but I don't see how to limit the search terms to trials started in any one year. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/home

Excellent comment, Trish, thanks.

That's a very revealing tweet by Sharpe. It describes what he considers to be 'harassment', but it's not 'death threats', it's attempts to damage his reputation and have his papers retracted. That I think is interesting in itself. But it's also exactly what happens to bad science: it's retracted...

It's legitimate. I have seen similar tweets from that account.

You would understand reviewer code better than I would, but I read that differently. I read it as an endorsement of the discussion, that he is saying the debate about the trial is providing a necessary and interesting review of the PACE papers and there's really no need for him to say anything more.