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This.

This. It has become too important to be allowed to fail.

I am guessing it is not the first time in history either.

Yeah, that was a real WTF? moment for me too. Like when I found out that pre-LC he had been in the psychogenic camp. o_O Do I have empathy for Garner? Some. Do I have any sympathy or respect for him now? None whatsoever. He and the system that fails to reign him in are an utter disgrace. :mad:

Yep. Their dishonesty and cowardice is a fucking disgrace.

And the highly problematic nature of the conceptual and empirical basis for the FND diagnostic category.

They are deliberately identifying the biases that 'work' for their approach and maximising them. They are selecting outcome measures on the basis they give a positive results, and rejecting ones that don't. They are setting up a 'methodology' that does not allow them to be wrong. They are...

About 15 years ago I was told by quite a few (outside the ME community), including some doctors, that my concerns about what was happening to our (Australian) social security system was just catastrophising, and it wouldn't happen, that we would never be treated that badly. Well, as anybody...

Clearly the grand BPS project is too important to be allowed to fail.

Previously posted related study: https://www.s4me.info/threads/wessely-and-double-blinding.8342/

That is encouraging.

Wessely has perfected the art of speaking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time.

And shared responsibility for the consequences?

I fear many clinicians will simply see it an issue of better bedside manner, a better sales pitch, while not actually doing anything much different from what they want to anyway. Not even sure a 'shared' decision makes much sense in this context.

That will happen for all those who got two AZ. Either an mRNA or an updated AZ, or some other version that covers newer strains. We could be playing this annual booster shot merry-go-round for a few years.

My first was AZ, and that is supposed to be my second too, but I am quite keen to get a Pfizer/Moderna instead. I'll take the AZ if an mRNA isn't on offer, but will be getting in the mRNA queue if that becomes an option.

However, if these patients were retained in the intervention, their response to CBT for CFS was comparable with subjects who score high on the ASTM. Or, sicker people are less able to finish the pointless psycho-drama performance you demand of them. Not to mention being a lot less willing to...

Depends on how shared and collaborative and joint the decision making actually is. In particular if patients have the right of veto over 'treatment options'. But maybe this time. Maybe.

Or cowardice.

Yes. Let's be crystal clear about this: Not being believed by somebody in a critical position of such influence and authority is not just a bit of butt hurt, we are not talking slightly bruised egos here, a bad hair day. This kind of denial can and does have extraordinarily serious adverse...