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There is something very odd about these graphs. They seem to show the same lines but the point in time give as 16 in the big graph is given as about 60 days in the small graph. Also, the rise in the red line at 4 (?days) might be expected from a single case but if the line is an average for 14...

The message here is fair enough but the author may be a bit guilty of biased information too. The author claims to be editor in chief of a journal that has had 180 manuscripts to review since early 2017 - roughly one a week. An established quality journal would probably get a minimum of 10...

Presumably spread through communal sewage systems requires the sewage to come back up to the surface to infect people! I once saw a television program in which loo pipes in apartment blocks went down through other people's kitchens and leaked!

I don't think any of us have expertise! So we are all wading up to our midriffs. I agree. The problem is how do you recruit trainees and at the end of the MA course say - 'sorry Mr Doogooder but you are the wrong sort of chap for this, you won't do anyone any good'. And who decides? Maybe...

I strongly suspect that some counsellors or therapists put people's lives back together and do real good. On the other hand I know of cases where lifelong harm has been done. In general the harm seems to stem from theory-based approaches rather than just pragmatic help. So it may well be that...

I think this paragraph gives away the muddled thinking behind the author's stance: Insisting on a medical model of diagnosis, with an ‘expert-imposed’ treatment plan, may work well most of the time for physical health care. But it is often a disaster for mental health, where you need the...

Some of the arguments in the text about medical models allow the magic bullshit to show through but I admit that I have already formulated a view on people who call themselves Jungians. One of my best friend's mother was a Jungian psychotherapist and the devastation wreaked by the mumbo jumbo...

If there had ever been any doubt that she is peddling phoney science this dispels it, certainly. I would not be surprised if there were legal implications.

Interesting that this sort of critique is only coming from people even further into the psychotherapy scam. This guy seems to be a born-again Jungian into all sorts of magic. He is threatened by IAPT because it is 'too medical'. Still, civil war amongst psychosocialists may not be a bad thing.

I am afraid this looks very amateur and disorganised. Projects of this sort, to be done properly, need big infrastructural funding. It sounds like some people crowdfunding for their salaries rather than a serious scientific proposal.

I had not idea teeth was so dangerous!

Sorry, we are being frivolous.

I thought it was a Cochrane word choice?

I would like to see the protocol but this looks to be a completely valueless design.

I thought Colquhoun was being a bit sneaky with 'no very effective treatments'. Being the sceptic he is why didn't he say we do not know if any treatments are effective. I am also not sure about the arbitrary bit. High blood pressure is very heterogeneous but the definition is not arbitrary -...

Interesting because David has previously said ME/CFS is too complicated to comment on and not engaged.

This is where IAPT trained psychologists can use their skills. If you are an overachiever they will be able to use their knowledge to see that your ME is due to overachieving. If you are a poorly educated unemployed layabout then they can use their skills to deduce that this is why you have ME...

I am a bit sceptical about lists of methodological rules for judging study quality. In my view there are no general rules that always apply other than common sense. Small uncontrolled studies are sometimes fine. Large controlled studies can be useless. I think the criteria to look for in this...

Surgery for epilepsy can involve removing small chunks of brain tissue. It depends critically on where the focus is because you cannot afford to take chunks out of the areas that serve specific parts of the body or sensations (motor cortex or visual cortex for instance). Frontal lobes and some...

It was.I think this is fake news again.