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    Bias due to a lack of blinding: a discussion

    Thanks! I read a lot of Emerson in my American Romantics course in college (Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, etc). That was in, uh, 1976. So, you know. A while ago.
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    Bias due to a lack of blinding: a discussion

    Ah yes, ok. the hobgoblin of little minds part I recognize, although I wouldn't have been able to attribute it to Ralph.
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    Bias due to a lack of blinding: a discussion

    I will have to look that up. I have no idea what that refers to. Is that Ralph Waldo?
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    Bias due to a lack of blinding: a discussion

    This definitely seems to be true.
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    The Prevalence of Pediatric Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in a Community-Based Sample (2020) Jason et al.

    Until I went to Australia two years ago, I had heard them being used interchangeably. In Australia, I found that there was a clear distinction--that someone with PVFS might get all better after two years and so it wasn't ME. There were cases of athletes in particular who really seemed to be...
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    O'Dowd-Crawley early intervention study

    Exactly. And writing up the circumstances surrounding the non-publication based on the public record and statements also does not depend on their cooperation or permission.
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    O'Dowd-Crawley early intervention study

    This sounds like a good idea--a case study.
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    The Prevalence of Pediatric Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in a Community-Based Sample (2020) Jason et al.

    @Simon M don't forget this analysis from last year: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2018.00435/full
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    Trial By Error: CBT and Irritable Bowel Syndrome

    well I have some sympathy for them on that aspect because there really aren't good biomarkers to use for IBS studies. The findings were all subjective questionnaires--the main one a symptom severity scale for IBS that's a fairly standard thing. And it showed very modest improvements on that...
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    Trial By Error: CBT and Irritable Bowel Syndrome

    it is a very badly written sentence that is meant I think to read: "with clinically effective and cost-effective treatments..." the word "effective" is meant to relate to both clinically and "cost-"--or so I think.
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    MUS: Shaky Evidence, Shaky Practice - Talk by David Tuller in Sheffield. 2:30pm 16th March 2020

    well, actually, Lightning Process was supposed to be mentioned there too. I haven't exactly really decided what I'm talking about yet.
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    Trial By Error: CBT and Irritable Bowel Syndrome

    yes and the stock options were not mentioned in the IBS study. Just the payment.
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    Trial By Error: CBT and Irritable Bowel Syndrome

    I wasn't sure if it was deliberately misleading or just written badly by an intern. And then not carefully vetted.
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    Trial By Error: CBT and Irritable Bowel Syndrome

    Hey thanks for posting this. I will look at that next. sounds like might be interesting bad claims being made
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    Trial By Error: CBT and Irritable Bowel Syndrome

    Yes, it's always good to read the fine print!
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    Trial By Error: CBT and Irritable Bowel Syndrome

    That should have been "months." It has been corrected! They wear off, but not quite that quickly.
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    Protocol: Persistent physical symptoms reduction intervention: a system change and evaluation (PRINCE), 2015 onwards, Chalder, Moss-Morris, et al

    yes the boom and bust stuff. where do they get that from related to IBS? I mean, I'd never heard of that at all in this context.
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