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One more question for @Hilda Bastian: Jonathan is one of the very few independent experts who has got involved with the issues under review. Out of interest, will the IAG be consulting any other truly independent scientists with relevant experience of designing and conducting clinical trials...

Thank you. That would be very helpful, and is what I was hoping for when I asked for clarification above. I agree, but God help us if that led anyone to conclude that we need more GET studies. I’m not even sure how an ME GET study could get ethical approval. I think the general issue of the...

I’ve only managed to a read a few posts in this thread, so apologies if I’m misunderstanding or repeating anything that has been said. First, thanks to @Hilda Bastian for taking on this task and engaging in this forum. I apologise if I have missed the explanation in this thread but please can...

This is what I was thinking of (the bit in bold in the second Tweet): https://www.thefacultylounge.org/2016/11/an-open-letter-to-dr-simon-wessely-defender-of-the-pace-study.html: “Finally, you point to your own blog post, which ironically undermines your very point. You compare the PACE Trial...

There is this from Sharpe et al: https://bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40359-019-0288-x To which you and Carolyn responded: https://bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40359-019-0296-x However, I suspect that your correspondent may be thinking of something...

Really sorry to hear that you’re having such a tough time Graham. I wonder if it might be worth contacting Prof Simon Carding at the Quadram Institute: simon.carding@quadram.ac.uk After his Zoom lecture to the Sheffield ME group on gut microbes I posted a question about published evidence for...

Free to read article in the FT which confirms Jonathan’s assertion some time back in this thread that the UK is bottom of the league on preventing deaths from Covid. UK suffers highest death rate from coronavirus | Free to read FT analysis of data from 19 countries finds Britain hit hardest...

Excellent. Thanks, Michiel. Sorry I've not been able to help.

Listened a couple of times and I’m prettying sure he said “was”. It doesn’t mention whether or not he is in spy SPI-B, but the intro confirms that he is director of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emergency Preparedness and Response at Kings College London...

I share SPI-B’s concerns about its advice being censored by the government (before it was later unredacted), but it seems hypocritical for SPI-B to be calling for transparency when it is still hiding the identity of 4 of its members. Unfortunately, the media seems to have dropped its interest in...

It could, although I would hope and assume that this is taken into account by those calculating the R values. Regardless of the true values, it is still interesting (to me at least) to note that the R value in the whole population can go up when the R value both in care homes and outside of...

Interesting article by Tom Chivers on Simpson’s Paradox. It explains how, counterintuitively, the R value could go up as a consequence of reducing the transmission rate in the community through lockdown. Not a great sub-heading but the content of the article is very good: ”We should be very...

To me, that graph is implausible. It suggests that easing restrictions (or adjusting measures) will have no effect on the effective reproduction rate R (or Re). In reality one would expect easing restrictions to increase Re. The angle of the gradient of the downward slope would therefore be...

Another Covd-19 article by Dr Hammond, which seems to be a little muddled. On the one hand he says he will “never understand” why we stopped testing, tracing and isolating (ie suppression strategy) and then he says we are now stuck with “staged herd immunity” (ie mitigation strategy). But we’re...

‪A more interesting question is why the president of Royal Society of Medicine (who was, and may still be, a member of SAGE) appeared to be so reluctant to follow PHE and WHO advice on self-isolating when his wife had Covid-19. On 14 March Nick Robinson informed listeners to the Today Programme...

Bonus point to the first person who manages to include ipsedixitism in a paper or letter on Covid-19 or ME/CFS. Extra bonus point to anyone who manages to combine the two!

You mean, like the sort of person who might be intimately involved with a clinical trial without actually being listed as a author; the sort of person who might advise on who should be on a research collaborative without actually being a member of the collaborative?

Ben De Peer is news editor at C4 news: All very familiar. Notable that Anthony Costello, like Jonathan, is emeritus Professor and therefore no fear of repercussions.

Interesting interview in the FT with Richard Horton, who has become a prominent critic of UK’s Covid-19 strategy: https://www.ft.com/content/8e54c36a-8311-11ea-b872-8db45d5f6714 I’m not a subscriber but I seem to be able read about one FT article a week for free. However, the second time I...