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Yes, what I was really wondering was why they weren't making their first auhoritative statement in The Lancet or BMJ--that would have seemed the most impactful if they actually had anything to say. Had I been specific about those two, it wouldn't have raised the same questions. I agreed with...

good point about the journal. I meant the most recent authoritative UK one, but also a good point.

The difference is that we can't be sure there are any nice people living in Palm Beach. Certainly not of the quality of Emma Thompson!

This is so terrible. How did you find out finally? And what is the legal status of requests to access your own NHS records?

Hey! Emma Thompson and Glenda Jackson live or lived there. George Michael too, didn't he? Although he drove into storefronts, I guess. So that could be a mitigating factor and work in Hampstead's favor.

We will see many papers in progress that will be immediately out-of-date the minute they're published because of their references to "evidence-based" treatments (ie GET and CBT). Peer reviewers should immediately flag this issue, although most of them won't because they all mostly believe the...

That's ok--it always stalls for a while mid-way through and at different points. I've trained myself not to fret about the ups and downs.

Hi, sorry about this! The software Berkeley uses--called ScaleFunder--is inadequate in many ways. One big way is that there is not a system for extracting e-mails of past donors and sending them a new message. The only way is to send an update from a previous campaign--which makes no sense...

Yeah I'm not the best at marketing. This is a good idea.

yes, amazing--"We had null results from our primary outcome, which we have agreed was the primary outcome for more than a decade, and so have now decided that quality of life is more important to patients anyway and that reduction of seizures is not the appropriate primary outcome." It's...

I keep bugging them to add this. Apparently, the ScaleFunder program that Berkeley uses doesn't include that or seem to allow them to add that. It is really mind-boggling. Every Berkeley campaign would get 7.5% more if they added that, since almost everyone who sees that button clicks it because...

excellent find! I had just glanced over the text. the difference in cannabis use is the most striking. but it's not clear from the table what period of time is being discussed. 7g of cannabis is a lot.

where is this? In the supplementary material?

I know. I fall behind. I updated it a couple weeks ago. I should do it each time I post, and don't. Thanks for the reminder.

Thanks. Among my least favorite activities.

Does anyone understand whether the fMRI findings mean anything, or what they mean if they do mean something?

I'm trying to be charitable. I don't think that comment in any way makes up for the article itself.

This seems just like bullshit to me. Important to remember that the CODES study had null results in terms of reducing seizure frequency at end of trial--those who DIDN'T get the intervention had greater seizure reduction than those who did...

Just to point out that this Gutkin is the same lead author who last year published a systematic review hyping the purported evidence that psychological therapies are effective interventions for functional neurological disorders. He announced that as his first published paper. i guess we're...

I think the paper was written by a computer algorithm.