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He seems to be a psychogeriatrician from King's moved to UCL.

Whois this half-wit Robert Howard?

I agree that the whole thing is very complicated and counterintuitive. I got at least one thing wrong last time I tried to give some explanations. To me the most likely thing is that for treatments that work adequate blinding tends to be used. For treatments that don't, people use inadequate...

That doesn't stop them from joining a proper website like this one.

Tests of this sort are only any better than asking people how they are either if they have been shown to provide some sort of explanation in terms of physiology or shown to predict symptoms later -and usually both go together. Correlation in a test is not in itself a sign of usefulness, even if...

This is nonsense. The idea that an EEG is more reliable than you are to tell if you are fatigued is plain stupid. Being fatigue is defined by what it is like to you, not EEG. EEGs are completely useless for diagnosing anything of this sort.

We have based our interventions to date on this original research andour experience tells us that they work. However, these Interventions have been embedded at Vitality360 within a multidisciplinary approach and not used in isolation. What we have learnt from the research and our experience is...

Another CV below. Who are Vitality360 then? If anyone has reason to think they are not commercial quackery I would be interested to hear.

Is anyone who is a member of BACME a member here on S4ME? If not why not, since this is the premier forum for discussing evidence based treatments? I checked out one of the speakers: About I have spent over 20 years working as an Occupational Therapist in the NHS, helping people maximise...

There is also a much larger medical community of well-qualified and well-informed doctors who agree with Michiel's conclusions.

So this is why the BMJ is casting doubt on the need for blinding this week. What a shabby circus medicine has descended to.

I think it may be very relevant that the 18 Cochrane reviews mentioned above are pretty much all looking at rather obscure interventions that are pretty unlikely to have any great value in the long term. They are fiddling around the edges interventions, not because the conditions being treated...

It's an organised campaign by activists, @Lucibee. Trials bring in money, so universities set ups trial units with statisticians and trial lists to make money. In order to make more money you need to do more trials so trials need to be freed up from regulation.

A bit before headache cos if you are short sighted reading gives you a headache.

I think Fiona Godlee's editorial illustrates the hopelessness of the current academic situation - where 'informed opinion' is created by people who lack any common sense understanding of the material. This seems to be the world we are now in - presumably because motivations have changed. The...

Yes, this is a very bizarre statement that appears to show a complete lack of understanding of how information is being used. It is a bit like saying why use a weighing machine to weigh the sugar for your cake when there won't be any weighing machine involved when you actually mix the cake mix...

No idea, but that does not mean it is any good doing it this way.

Pity these ME patients are so abusive and unco-operative towards researchers. ;)

Same as you @Snow Leopard. As you point out the controls are not well matched and moreover, the sampling of data is not randomised or blinded for content.

The agreed measures of quality of evidence for trials in general are: 1. Well matched controls 2. Randomisation 3. Blinding This is a trial of trials which has no well matched controls, is unrandomised and unblinded. It should not even make it into a meta-analysis. I think the authors are...