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Patterns are seductive, the issue is usually not the finding of a pattern but being able to distinguish real world connectivity from pareidolia.

The priority setting process was underway before I became aware of it and it seemed churlish to criticise after the fact so I haven’t previously commented on this thread, despite many reservations about the direction of the PSP. The following is delayed full “churl”. No doubt seeing an...

One statistical analysis must not rule them all, 2022, Wagenmakers, Sarafoglou, Aczel, Nature, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01332-8 "Any single analysis hides an iceberg of uncertainty. Multi-team analysis can reveal it. A typical journal article contains the results of only one...

The 2022 Clinical & Research Guide (The ‘Purple Book’) "We are very pleased to announce that the 2022 edition of the ME Association’s ME/CFS/PVFS Clinical and Research Guide is now available to purchase from the website shop and that a Kindle version will soon be available on Amazon. The...

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The 2022 Clinical & Research Guide (The ‘Purple Book’) "We are very pleased to announce that the 2022 edition of the ME Association’s ME/CFS/PVFS Clinical and Research Guide is now available to purchase from the website shop and that a Kindle version will soon be available on Amazon. The...

Inside Housing Government rejects Grenfell Inquiry recommendations on evacuation of buildings as ‘not proportionate’. News18.05.2211:30 AM GMTby Peter Apps The government has announced it will not implement critical recommendations of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry which called for legal...

"The above article, published online on 5 November2021 in EarlyView section on Wiley Online Library (https://doi.org/10.1002/fsn3.2476), has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Y. Martin Lo, and Wiley Periodicals, LLC. The retraction has been...

In which way could Psychiatry and Psychology help investigate ME/CFS ? My instinct with this kind of question is to break it down into imperative and pragmatic elements i.e the things one can't avoid and things that might be useful given some freedom of action. For all the reasons we are...

If it was deliberate then the intention may be to neon light "pharmacological" - the subtext being "that's where we need research". Notable numbers inflation - 250k top end estimate for the UK becomes an absolute, and the long accepted 17million globally becomes 30m - surely a nice round 50...

It's a thing: Chapter 2 Unsupervised analysis

The short duration of post holding is a long standing feature of UK Government - The case for keeping ministers in post longer and it would be a mistake to overly invest expectation in the contribution of a single Health Secretary (for non UKers - Government hierarchy puts 'Secretary' above...

It's nice to have friends: "Esther Crawley, Professor of Child Health in Bristol Medical School, will lead a team of epidemiologists, psychologists, sociologists and engineers on a pioneering project, called ‘Sleep Tracking and Treatment for Adolescent Mental health Problems (STTAMP)’. The...

Muckrack is a listing of journalists - bit like linked in.

To take the UK as an example, with the total number of confirmed cases of COVID over two years amounting to one third of the population, it becomes very difficult to separate new cases of ME/CFS following COVID from new ME/CFS cases comorbid with COVID. We don't have incidence figures of...

I think at this stage I'd go for improbable rather than implausible. The abstract doesn't make it clear what treatment objectives the current paper envisages but I don't think it is an unreasonable proposition that: a) poor ability to consciously approximate the timing of heartbeats is evidence...

Lots of dubious 'origins' of the name around. https://www.etymonline.com/word/forget-me-not "the flowering plant (Myosotis palustris), 1530s, translating Old French ne m'oubliez mye; in 15c. the flower was supposed to ensure that those wearing it should never be forgotten by their lovers...

O'Neill is The Times' chief reporter: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/sean-oneill?page=1 which explains the sympathetic nature of the story - unlikely that editors would allow someone 'not their own' to get away without a negative at some point. O'Neill has had involvement with ForwardME...

A legal opinion can be based on anything and a Ministerial Statement could form the basis of a legal claim, but it doesn't have any especial force in Law. UK Ministers frequently make statements that contradict one another and what is said by a Minister can be unsaid by that Minister - or...

It goes back to earlier 'certainties': Allergy and the chronic fatigue syndrome Scihub link: https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/0091-6749(88)90933-5 The allergy link has certainly been reported by patients and I think it was taken as a given for a long time within patient orgs, groups and fora that...