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The concept of evidence-laundering really needs to have a tough discussion within medicine. "Two wrongs don't make a right but 7 obviously do" is just not the kind of thinking that should have a long shelf life.

That could certainly explain some of White's friend's histrionics. It's a pretty big hole they have dug themselves into and there is no coming out of it without accepting responsibility, blame and consequences. Or maybe not. But if not that's quite a coincidence.

And particularly breaking apart Brine's statement about patients having the right to refuse treatment. Apparently... they don't entirely. Not officially, anyway. Given the nature of how governments are responsible before parliament, this was not an off-the-cuff statement, it was prepared and...

That's the point. They don't because any proper assessment would quickly show this is not relevant at all here. It is not a credible claim, hence why it is merely by implication, rather than actually processed. But more importantly an assessment cannot be a broad stroke, it is a personal...

Something I've been thinking for a while but this is declaration of mental incompetence by implication. ME patients are assumed to be mentally confused and as such incapable of making decisions for themselves, as a broad stroke and without even an attempt at making individual assessment...

I think it's just busywork to keep the pretense that research is ongoing. With regular publication of this type of research it maintains the illusion that it is a valid area of research since it keeps on putting out papers (nevermind that they're all pretty much the same "research" done over and...

It's pretty much inevitable. It's just a question of when the levee breaks. It may be years away, but it will. Once it does there will be much scrambling and throwing dead weight in front of very large double-decker buses. There will be attempts at presenting sacrificial lambs but it won't be...

I have previously described this as an ouroboros of bullshit but I take it back. It's more appropriate to describe it as a human centipede of delusional bullshit, where some chains in the centipede clearly being occupied by the same people in a reality-breaking symbiosis, maybe some quantum...

The 2 likes on this tweet are funny and pathetic, it's the psychosocial sock puppets. He could seriously get in trouble if he continues like this. Oh well.

From https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12195884: Hopefully that kind of money would be given to people who would actually do something about rather than finding creative ways to blame them for it. No doubt "trying to help those who are ill" would involve the kind of world-class research you can...

Oh, yes, yes we do :)

This is still the original framing that Wessely et al promoted from the 80's. Nothing has changed to their rhetoric. Completely stuck in an ideologically-fixed frame of mind. "Could be". "May be." 3 decades of forcing their ideology through and still absolutely nothing to show for other than a...

I'm thinking there may be things happening behind the scenes. In some tweets he's bordering on histrionics. It seems deeply personal and emotional, likely an appeal from White. It's a very fragile house of cards, after all. Once things start unraveling there won't be much left standing of this...

I'm so sick of this argument. It's a thought-terminating cliché. There are hundreds of health problems for which there is no help, some with minimal impact, some terminal. It's not a real issue. The only rational response is to help with the impact and do research, which is what is usually done...

As well as the ones we got following the Cochrane report where "random" academics were seemingly shocked, *SHOCKED* I tell you, about unspecified misconduct that was, well, unspecified, but surely worthy of the harshest condemnation and performative public shaming. Total coincidence that most...

I have seen far too often "waiting list" being cited as a passive form of treatment. I guess it's a thing, apparently one that makes no distinction between waiting for nothing and waiting for actual treatment. Or it probably does in most cases and as always there's just exceptions for...

So it's been revealed that Blanchflower is a friend of Peter White (bravo to those who found it, I checked for associations myself but missed it by checking only Wessely and Sharpe :p), hence his bizarre obsession with PACE (rather than the general psychosocial debate). Unfortunately he seems...

Kind of telling that the purpose is policy development, rather than, you know, actually helping people, especially in the context of a review that was forced because there were so many complaints (this detail is really getting lost IMO). Supply-side medicine, patients need not apply.

Ah, my bad. But there was one shared recently from ME Association (I think) that had similar numbers. There was another one from Norway as well, I think? But somewhere around 1K respondents as well. We're really lacking in updated data here. Bits and pieces everywhere just isn't good enough...

I seem to remember that several competent participants were excluded for being suspected to be "attached" to a single perspective. Double standards, clearly. As someone pointed out, Jo Daniels was the one who tried to do the shopping bag study. Oh, how we should not miss out on that level of...