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Webdog for Prez! Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light, our furry little friend with the great big sharp bite! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :hug: –––––––– "How did we remain ignorant for so long?" Whatever the final explanation for that is, it will gave to include the word...

Anybody still doubt that Wessely has been a brutally effective smear merchant from the very start?

I think what this shows most of all is just how ill-prepared Cochrane are for dealing with this kind of problem, and that they urgently need to develop more robust and timely means of doing so. The rule (?) that they cannot withdraw a paper without the author's consent is particularly...

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Can't remember who said it (Oliver Sacks?), but it goes something like: The most important question in medicine is how to respond to those patients you can't offer any effective treatment. An interesting thought for our times.

Direction of causality is what distinguishes between psychosomatic and biomedical.

Agree with this. One of the more disturbing aspects of all this whole farce is how much is hand waved away and swept under carpets by those insisting that the physical-mental divide doesn't exist, is an old outdated view, unproductive, misleading, unimportant,... whatever. But direction of...

Don't be silly. We all know that it's in the ether, and there is no escaping it. :bag:

Or fraud.

Graded Engagement Therapy

:thumbup: I brush and rinse, then put a fresh dab of toothpaste in my mouth and spread it on the teeth, and leave it there.

They crossed over into a cult a while back, IMHO.

The level of mediocrity required to produce such drivel is mind boggling. And that is the generous interpretation. :D

measured using extracellular flux analysis. I have often wondered if the extracellular matrix is somehow involved, particularly the amorphous component.

Worked for me yesterday.

Posting this from Wessely in a 2009 interview, because it shows that he clearly understands the importance of double-blinding subjective outcome measures and controlling for the placebo effect, and is happy to (selectively) invoke this standard when it suits him to further his psychosocial...

Lack of self-awareness much?

That is the get-out-of-jail-free card for them. Just classify uncooperative patients as being of unsound mind, and it all becomes so much easier for doctors and policy makers.

Well, either the situation with juveniles is something like Jonathan Edwards described (at comment #10), a distinct possiblility. Or a number of different disorders are being mixed in. Or a bit of both. Diagnostic rigour remains a serious concern here.