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They used a survey of their clients, who signed a contract saying they can only say that it helped. Oh, and the data were collected by a company where Landmark works. Hell even by the standards of the tobacco industry and their lies this is excessively corrupt because it's happening with public...

CFS/MECFS The attention to details is very inspiring.

There is another tweet thread from Simon mentioning updates this week. And it has fighting words. Can't really do better as an advocate than Simon Décary, who is part of the executive committee. I still don't know if this will be enough, the system is really built to fail us. But it's the sum...

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All this mindless pseudoscience really shows is that in psychology, you can confirm anything you want if you want it to, even if you define it in a circular way, and even when it's exactly what you expect. Which is known. This is as nonsensical as asking poor people whether they want to buy...

At least there is more than one person involved that is addressing the issue and being responsive to the concerns. It appears to be a mistake, there are too many names here for everyone to have influence, so let's wait and see how they adapt. Because so far our experience has been that any such...

Yeah, it's parody. Holding a mirror, as it said in a comment.

First novelty account I've seen yet. This is sarcastic:

Oh, that's what this is about. Holy hell. I saw a tweet mentioning this and didn't know what it meant. It's probably just the people who got involved in any way, but this means our BPS overlords are heavily involved in many international efforts. What does Flottorp even has to do with this...

As we know, it is very difficult for them, a publishing company, to do basic stuff like adding a note on a publication. At least that's the excuse they had for us. It's a terrible excuse that amounts to rank incompetence, but still, it is the cheap excuse they gave us. Clearly, admission of...

Seeing the general state of things, and the abysmal quality of most of the research so far, I don't think they have to spend that much effort to get their way. The entire system is primed to accept any stuff like this. It's a tradition that was already strong the day they were born. I thought...

And they are trying very hard to find out who caused this. Very, very hard.

I will assume that the authors agreed to the corrections, right? Or the same if there's a retraction. Because this is the standard. It would be mightily hypocritical to make such an arbitrary exemption to this new zero-tolerance rule given it is the only excuse given to us for 7 years about the...

Most reactions I'm seeing from professionals are actually praising Cochrane for doing the right thing. If anyone is wondering whether they will change their behavior in the future. Why would they even bother, when they can fail miserably and get praise for it? Maybe that whole failing upward is...

Again, this is their opinion. It's an opinion that dates back before electrification. But even today all they have is merely "this is our opinion". It's beyond clear that knowledge in medicine is gained from the scientific method, not experience. It works for some things, but fails at most...

When you pay zero attention to the outside world, and are strictly focused on what matters to you, instead of what is actually important. Medicine without any consideration for patients, only pet ideologies, exactly as lousy as it sounds.

At a time when the failure of his beliefs is the most exposed, has been revealed to be harmful junk, no less. Impressive example of failing upward, of being recognized for being successful despite having nothing to show for it other than massive suffering and ruin. Like being promoted in the...

So they're basically admitting that they don't check stuff. If a study author misrepresented their results, what is even the point of Cochrane if they don't catch it? And the journals don't either? And somehow, not their fault, the overwhelming message, with headlines all over the world...

I am seriously baffled at the discussion over the evolutionary aspect of the sickness response and the "paradox" that it's better to alleviate it. Because this is exactly what's expected. It has an evolutionary advantage in nature, not in a controlled lab. This is exactly what is expected. This...

I'm reading around this part of the article and I don't understand what is paradigm-shifting here? This is sickness behavior, what is different about this other than that they didn't know about specific neurons being involved, and possibly which molecules act on it? If you'd have put this...