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In the sense of the potential that various theories require you to be unlucky enough to take a big enough hit of 'something', perhaps when your body was vulnerable or you weren't in a situation you could recover well then I guess there is the probability roll-over of more years = more chances to...

Then again - if someone can explain, does even a bad peer review 'legitimise' as 'been reviewed' vs 'not been reviewed' without very significant changes having to be made? which seems a terribly flawed system if so.

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is that really where the cancer literature is now? where the big charities would all be OK with suggestions that - what all cancer, given nothing specific has been excluded here, has a component of exercise tied to outcome? Because that would be as flawed as you get!!? Oh what a surprise those...

it's pretty bad isn't it when it is a review - something doesn't have a high risk of bias for no reason ie you have to assume there is a likelihood that the bias is operating in the direction of the preferred agenda of the writer. Because sure as heck if something was wrecking the result they...

Thank you. The link I've got doesn't have an obvious list of section links, so I'm 'going fishing' for the appendix. Of course that means that in the process I've come across the following section: OK on the membership, Ian HIckie appears to be the only one of these authors who is a member...

Thanks for confirming, I was interested partly because back in 1999 the internet had obviously been up and running for a bit but things certainly were nowhere near as workable for people from 3 different continents to work together as we might now assume. I know that perhaps there might have...

They've taken on a big job to try and find ways to pick these pieces apart in order to show this. But if they manage or get near to starting to do bits of it then it looks like they are trying to square the circle on showing up/how the misinformation and so on operates and what it causes. It's...

It can be a bit of a heavy read. But there is a chance there is something in here. And the methodological points I've seen so far seem pretty useful in the context of ME/CFS given we all go through stages of just rising above things and 'hoping for the best' and so on. But also accepting that...

the author then explained that when the results were analysed they weren't consistent with what was known about who/which demographic group actually gets the most discrimination... SO the author is picking up on the fact that the affluent young and women are the ones who are most able to 'call...

In the middle of para 2 of 1. objectives of the study, background-theoretical contextualization, and analytical model: and just before this:

I've often thought that the sex difference is a big assumption that we do really need to test before we use it as a clue to the level of using it to point to where to look for the mechanisms or checking 'fit' of any models. due to all sorts of things that might be little to do with the pwme...

That is so frustrating. I'm trying to work out whether my frustration is clouding this at all but to me it feels like how on earth can they get away with that twisting of the interpretation into a win-win for them and no-win for patient. They seem determined that whatever result happened they...

I've come across 'the international Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study Group' which I'd never heard of before but came up for at least I. Hickie, curious if others know much about it as don't want to assume more from a quick google than it actually is, could that be a possible link, or reason...

Gosh I was googling for something else and just came across this paper (hence looking up this thread on s4me to check it was on here) In hindsight now looking back nearly 3yrs to 2021. This was published less than a month after the new guidelines were finally released. I'm not sure of the...

this is a sidenote but I've looked up Chalder to see where she was at this point in time 1999 career-wise (she'd had her name on a few publications many years before), and was surprised by this on MEpedia (Trudie Chalder - MEpedia (me-pedia.org) ) : From 2012 to 2014 Chalder was president of...

I think something to note is actually getting into the journal 'Psychological Medicine' - I would be interested if there is anyone on the forum who has a sense of how 'stringent' that was back then vs eg getting in with whatever conclusions vs method to a more psychosomatic (or other)...

I clicked on the first author for this article in order to see who Van Der Linden was (I assume it was Chalder and was curious when she was qualifying in academia and if these were her 'early days' papers, but she is second on the list): Search (cambridge.org) all the papers listed are from an...

I have to always remind myself the b in BACME is supposedly ‘British’ because I always assume it’s ‘behaviourist’ there’s no behavioural cajoling out of the energy envelope problem BUT No one would/should expect turkeys to vote for xmas That's why they get so puzzled when we think they will...