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It's nice being Jewish and not feel like you have to feel anything one way or the other on Christmas Eve.

The study headline is way out of line. It clearly implies a causal relationship. This is a cross-sectional study. It cannot show a causal relationship. It is obvious that people will be more worried about pain when they know they will do something that will cause them more pain. To define that...

Of course her 12 corrections do not appear to have slowed her down...

The article kind of distorted the point of that meta-analysis. That study found 0.76% prevalence on the basis of clinically defined cases rather than self-reports. So no one was endorsing that expansive prevalence estimate. Here is the results section from the abstract: "Results: Of 216 records...

Is this letter to Karla and her response something I can post publicly?

I don't think she ever claimed that. She touted her heroic decision to NOT leave the field because of her great concern for all the poor children who needed her to remain dedicated.

I agree with this. In the US, when Viagra was approved, insurance companies immediately started covering it. It wasn't even debated. And yet decades after that, women can have trouble getting basic contraception through insurance, or maybe the pharmacist refuses to provide the morning-after...

Also, this statement in the highlights seems to be wrong: "Results suggest the Fukuda case definition does not define a heterogeneous group." I mean, they found that Fukuda DOES produce a heterogeneous group. The paper includes this sentence: "Differences between hiPEM and loPEM CFS patients...

These remarks all seem very pertinent to me.

yes, that's what I was wondering--whether people get better on cognitive tests through familiarity with the test rather than legitimate improvements.

Then I'll see you there. I'm currently planning to go, unless something changes...

Yup--just noticed that. I was going to respond to him but others did such a good job I didn't need to!

By the way, please do leave comments at the article itself. That gets noticed by editors.

well, it was strategic for the reasons you suggest, but it was also sincere. I love those disease-mongering articles in BMJ--that was a very important effort. The journal has done some good things under Dr Godlee. Unfortunately, not in this realm of science.

yeah, something like that.

Does anyone have a copy of the BJGP article? I can't seem to access it through Berkeley. Not sure why.

Yes I wondered what that meant exactly. It really was the investigators' failure to fully inform the journal of the facts.

yes I remember you biked to a gathering I attended!!

Ha! I like to think SOME rational discussion can take place there as well!!

Sorry just catching up to this, it escaped my attention earlier. The change in interventions seems to be a doubling of the sessions for Activity Management from three initially to six later on, from the changes in the descriptions on the registration. I haven't seen an explanation for that change.