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Completeness of clinical evidence citation in trial protocols: A cross-sectional analysis, Cell Med, Sheng, Feldhake, Zarin, Kimmelman, 2022. Summary Background Human protection policies require assessment of how proposed clinical trials relate to prior and ongoing studies testing similar...

Research Professional News, UKRI admits role in Researchfish Twitter controversy, 2022, Sophie Inge. "Funder reveals it agreed Researchfish should share “abusive” tweets with it National research funder UK Research and Innovation has admitted it encouraged Researchfish to report some tweets...

Judicial Appointments Commission "The Judicial Appointments Commission selects candidates for judicial office in England and Wales, and for some tribunals with UK-wide powers. History of the Judicial Appointments Commission It is our statutory duty to select candidates on merit, who are of...

Psychologist speak: Daily Hassles and Uplifts "However, some psychologists questioned this method of evaluating stressful events. They believed that the rarity of such events could not account for the recurring stress that people experience on a day-to-day basis. Instead of looking at major...

Correlation looks problematic - is LOH a consequence of COVID19 or does LOH lower male immunity to infection by and/or sequalae of, COVID19 infection ?

Author of the book "Science Fictions" - brief bio here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_J._Ritchie I'd put him in the class of "psychologist worth paying attention to; a new generation".

Merged thread Guardian article: The big idea: should we get rid of the scientific paper? by Stuart Ritchie, 2022 Article in the Guardian Newspaper - available on line The big idea: should we get rid of the scientific paper? "Consider the messy reality of scientific research. Studies almost...

"cough" 'These alterations are not specific to MCS. They are also reported for chronic fatigue syndrome, posttraumatic stress disorder, electromagnetic hypersensitivity, fibromyalgia, depression, somatization disorder, phobias, and panic disorder.;. All of these disorders have in...

While there may be less take up in the sense that the number of GPs having the Purple Book on their shelves for reference (as opposed to filed in the 'may read one day box'), there's long standing marketing research that shows when someone commits their own resources - time, money etc they are...

The (sort of) hypothesis they seem to be testing is based on global RA rates - simplistic comparisons between high RA populations (USA) and low RA populations (SE Asia) hence the 'Western Diet' model; there are all sorts of confounds in this approach; I guess one can say this is all very...

Not for sending out but a link to the MEA Purple Book https://meassociation.org.uk/2020/08/now-available-the-2020-me-association-me-cfs-pvfs-clinical-and-research-guide/ would be good to include. It's free for UK medics but I guess non UKers would need to order it from the MEA or simply purchase...

Not (necessarily) contrast bathing - a review here of a small number of immersion studies, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6479732/ ankle bathing would seem to fall in the group of 'extremity bathing'.

Charity Governance Code Openness and accountability "Communicating and consulting effectively with stakeholders The board identifies the key stakeholders with an interest in the charity’s work. These might include users or beneficiaries, staff, volunteers, members, donors, suppliers, local...

Why the huge gender bias ? There's no evidence for massively higher rate of COVID19 infection in females, no evidence for majorly higher hospitalisation rates and so far no certain evidence that post COVID19 symptoms are more prevalent in females. If as the study suggests moderate and vigorous...

Broken' FoI system must be fixed to combat rising government secrecy, warn editors and MP "In an open letter to information commissioner John Edwards organised by Open Democracy, the signatories called for clearer protocols, better-funded oversight and harsher punishments for those flouting FoI...

Looks like this is targeted at parents who are expecting their bambini to play for Roma or win the Giro !

From: https://edzardernst.com/2013/12/the-myth-about-traditional-chinese-medicine/ "What is being offered in our country to patients as TCM is a construct that was created in China on an office desk which has been altered further on its way to the West. Already at the beginning of the 20th...

Bansal doesn't use the term "Parasympathetic Nervous System Dysfunction" but it seems to cover some of the general pathology he (unreferenced) refers to - this paper: Parasympathetic Nervous System Dysfunction, as Identified by Pupil Light Reflex, and Its Possible Connection to Hearing...

Absolutely. I don't see what Hanson said as being merely political, to me it sounds to be a logical parsing of the research challenge. Of course it depends on what the research objective is but I don't see at all problematic to say LCS and GWS do not offer useful populations for the...