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That seems optimistic. A pledge is not a promise, it's something that must happen. Is that accurate, that it's actually a pledge and not some vague promise, which we've had for decades by now?

There's something about working out in cold weather that is deeply satisfying. But you do have to experience for it to make sense ;) You also adapt to cold weather. After a few weeks of very cold weather, -5C seems almost mild.

Is a lobby group. Technically a charity but also technically an astroturf (i.e. fake grassroots) organisation.

I'm thinking it must a bit awkward when most of those outlets will have several very negative disinformation articles in their archives. Many like the Guardian have uncritically promoted the BPS team's every word as if it was unimpeachable truth, borderline labeling us as dangerous militants...

There's a big difference between intervening on specifics and day-to-day operations compared with highlighting what is evidently a massive failure. This is judging the outcome, not the process (though in this case one follows the other). NICE and professional bodies are free to do whatever they...

The slides have been taken down from Columbia's website. Probably a mishap but anyone knows how to get in touch with someone for that? It wouldn't have the same impact if it was hosted elsewhere (if someone had a copy), it's great that it was on the university's website. The video is still on...

Uhhh.. the RCGP cites the FINE trial as evidence. That's... shockingly bad.

Hahahaha. No. Definitely not a chance of that. It should look silly to anyone paying attention but this has been the PR strategy all along and they will keep saying that on their death bed.

Even more so when they have a legal obligation to rely on objective evidence and real-world patient input and data, which they have purposefully chosen to disregard. The legitimate objections from patient advocates are on public record. They form a damn long and voluminous record of failure...

This argument is used often and it's absurd on its face. This is not about basic science. The researchers themselves admit that they make no claims about cause, pathology or even imply that it's psychosomatic (which they do, they just keep that opinion out of those papers and the resulting...

It does not diverge from what Sharpe is still writing about. It's also quite similar to the earlier stuff from the late 80's as well. It shows that the conclusion of what treatment they promote was the starting point, rather than a result of any significant research. This is ideological...

Ideology and magical thinking. Also we are literally incapable of countering this, we are the perfect defenseless population almost no one cares about. If we relent, it's evidence that it works. If we object, it's also evidence that it works. There are very few of those left. Previous...

http://www.sacfs.asn.au/about/guidelines/letter_mar_7.htm (ME/CFS Australia (SA) Inc: Letter to eMJA (March 7, 2002)) This is why we are facing so much irrational obstruction and sabotage. Every legitimate warning has come to pass. Objections have been consistent and evidence-based for...

Has anyone ever promoted this as a replacement for RCTs? Ever? Bueller? Anyone? Both. All of it. This isn't a binary choice where one excludes the other. The most interesting results come from when real-world data conflict with research. It opens up the gaps in research (or in the data) and...

Avoiding embarrassment. Same with Lancet, Cochrane and everyone else. This is a massive failure and no one wants to be accountable for it so the only option is to continue doggedly despite knowing it is morally and intellectually bankrupt.

So far everything points to things getting worse before they get better. I don't know if there will ever be any consequences but many people have made horrible decisions from an ideological position and legitimate objections are just too voluminous and consistent throughout the decades. If there...

Well, this will age very, very, very poorly. It's correct that patient activism should not be a factor in medical guidelines. But dismissing and contradicting patient input, creating a fictional alternative representation of a disease has made it necessary. The issues have been raised...

It's rarely conspiracy. It's just people defending an opinion who just happen to have been completely wrong for decades about a matter of life and death. It happens all the time. No one manufactured the AIDS crisis, it happened because majority opinion, including in the medical profession, was...

I'll always marvel at the reality of medical professionals looking at sick people trying to get medical care and noting how strange and unnatural it would be for sick people to so insistently seek medical care because obviously someone experiencing serious health problems but being faced with...

Some brilliant guy name, S Wessely, no, that's too obvious, let's call him Simon W. You wouldn't know him. But brilliant guy. Lots of people say that, believe me.