Search results

For some reason I’ve always connected the word ‘sleuth’ with ‘sloth’. Not being a native speaker probably contributes to the confusion!

The burden of proof to convict would probably have to be quite high, so you’d end up with many ‘false, but legal’ papers. I’m not sure if that’s a problem.

The main point of posting this article here was the difference between the retraction rates and the suspected rate of falsified papers. 0.2 % suggests that less than 1 in 10 of falsified papers gets retracted.

The US retracts papers at a lower rate than most. I doubt it’s because they are much more honest in their research.

This might be of interest: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00455-y Exclusive: These universities have the most retracted scientific articles A first-of-its-kind analysis by Nature reveals which institutions are retraction hotspots.

A Medium post by the lead author from April 2022. My bolding. ———— Seeking participation from both unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals worldwide with or without COVID and/or adverse events for a study approved by institutional review board. COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has...

Wouldn’t Fukuda (CDC-1994) overestimates the prevalence?

It says so in the description:

I looked at the first two pages and there are some issues with the questions. It asks you how many hours you work per week, and the lowest option is 1-10. But the intro says you can participate if you left work within the last 12 months, so you should be able to answer 0.

Cochrane might have a net negative score..

I wonder what being right-handed has to do with anything - why would they report this? And is it normal to exclude women that menstruate during the MRI scanning?

It might be that their research position is at the BPS section. I found this ‘research group’ for Behaviour Medicine which is a part of the Institute for Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska headed by Rikard Wicksell - a psychiatrist with a thing for ACT. He was involved in Jonsjö’s research on...

Does this mean the Infectious Diseases sort under Behavioural Medicine? Or that this particular position does? Based on the qualifications, it seems like an oncologist could sort under Behavioural Medicine. Which could imply that Infectious Disease does as well. This website from Karolinska...

Good points!

Not a review but an overview from last year: https://www.s4me.info/threads/advancing-research-and-treatment-an-overview-of-clinical-trials-in-me-cfs-and-future-perspective-2024-seton-et-al.36803/

I’ve heard lots about Gupta - it was popular among a select few of the early LC community I was a part of. Predatory b*stards.

I take it back - they did a complete u-turn in the next section. They a located in London. Would this qualify as false advertising like what LP used to do? ————— How Acupuncture Can Help CFS According to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), CFS is an imbalance of Qi (vital energy) and blood...

I’ve read worse descriptions! The cynical part of me wonders if they’ve made an effort to ‘please’ potential customers in order to draw them in..

There are probably many different ways to calculate ‘fastest growing’.

I wonder if the intensity or nature of the exertion might impact the delay. Exercise with a CPET is pretty extreme, and might on average produce a quicker response in terms of PEM compared to less intense exertion. Maybe there is some kind of dose response relationship here.