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Mats Reimer comes across as someone who is trying to get away with not having done their homework. He avoids engaging with the specifics of the real controversies, and instead seems to want to focus on the tedious 'psych vs bio' story. He argues that analysing data from old trials won't settle...

I saw no mention of the possibility that subjective feelings about fitness may relate to greater physical problems with doing exercise and therefore be associated with, but not cause, physical health problems. eg if doing a certain level of exercise takes more effort that could correlate with...

I still haven't listened to the last Tuller talk, where he was talking about using journalism to achieve progress in science, and people were saying that was really good too. I need to improve my time management to make use of all the goodies people are posting up.

I can see the point that Tuller's crowd-funding is for "PACE-busting" not "PACE investigation". One could argue that this could make Tuller less amenable to persuasion from the PACE researchers, or defences of the trial. I think it's important that this has already been going on for a number...

That line of theirs bugs me whenever I see it. Patients did not decide to define their illness through the Chalder fatigue scale and SF36-PF. Even something like the Oxford criteria, which requires patients have fatigue which is sever and disabling, does not require that the disabling nature of...

Thanks for reaching out to him. Great work.

They did write this: https://morningstaronline.co.uk/node/42151 Trying to reach out to potential allies like this seems a really useful things to do. I wish I'd sent them a 'thank you' e-mail now. Easy to forget about things like that.

They always avoid the difficult questions.

I don't know - to me that seemed to be arguing quite different approaches, with Brown arguing against the sort of restrictions of the FOIA for government White had been arguing for in universities. I've not been able to find some of the White stuff I remember previously being on-line. In the...

I was looking for something else and found this. Only really of interest because Brown/SAS are arguing here against restrictions to the use of the FOIA at the same time that they were helping promote that narrative that the PACE researchers were being harassed by FOI requests. Thought I'd post...

He seems to have shamelessly embraced this prejudiced view of the patients criticising PACE. I'm surprised he's so open about it. edit: When patients criticise PACE we're expected to present arguments and engage with the evidence. If a patient tweeted liked Sharpe then they'd be condemned for...

He had joined PR. Things like that do make the loss of the forum extra annoying. He wrote an article for the JofHP special issue: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1359105317710246 A couple of blogs listed here: http://me-pedia.org/wiki/Keith_Laws

I'd guess it's linking to this: http://www.meactionuk.org.uk/wessely_speech_120594.htm

Yeah, I assumed there must be some regulations on when people's email addresses can be used. I don't think one email would necessarily seem like hassling though (depending on whether they'd given permission for their emails to be used), or that we can assume people who donated last time are even...

I wonder if there's any way of sending an email to those who donated last time, notifying them of the new effort? Possibly not. @dave30th ?

But surely researchers can't say "I will not declare the money I'm getting from tobacco companies as a COI, as it has not affected my views or behaviour one bit"!

LOL *sob*

I think it's the opposite. Politely explaining why they don't deserve to be respected is a more effective way of undermining them, and that's no favour for them. If they know what's good for them they want us to be as rude as possible. Do you see someone like Vogt drawing attention to tweets...

I think it depends on the specifics and I can struggle to find the right terminology sometimes. I find that working on when to use which term can be helpful for reminding oneself of exactly the problems with the claims they've made, and what can be proven. When they've said something which is...

Oh - I'm not worried about libel action and agree with your point about Blair, etc. It's more that doctor/research types who might be willing to listen to patient concerns can respond very badly to any claims that another doctor/researcher was a lying unless there's very clear evidence showing...