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Yes you can, Barry! Yes you can!!! !

And apparently you don't need to compare it to anything, either. Even without a comparison group, you can make claims of effectiveness, as these people do, and as Chalder recently did in her study of GET results from the clinic.

And I had complained to the journal couple months ago about this sentence: "Graded exercise therapy (GET) is an effective treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), but concerns have been raised about its safety." it is completely unacceptable to assert as fact a point--"GET is...

What leads you to that conclusion?

I have found this odd as well. But I agree that any more time spent thinking/talking about or discussing him is a waste at this point. I could have been using that time to write an article or clip my toenails. Garner will say what he will say and there is nothing anyone can do about it. In...

I have thought the same thing. They might elide between the two without realizing it, because it is self-evident to them that the treatments are "effective."

Has anyone captured the video and also the proposal, which has now been removed? And was there an official society explanation for what happened? The link now goes to nothing.

Is this really the derivation of it?

This is pretty bad. And again Chalder is making claims that these findings demonstrate "effectiveness" while claiming that the study design does not allow for causal explanations. To claim something is "effective" is making a causal claim. She has documented an association between people who...

I think his is likely the case--especially since the new guidelines undercut, say, the IAPT expansion to MUS and all efforts to treat Long COVID as if it arises from "deconditioning" and "unhelpful" illness beliefs.

This is right, I think. What individual who has invested his/her/their career in an idea and a series of studies promoting that idea could decide at 50 or 60 or 70 not only that their research sucks in fundamental ways but that they are actually responsible for causing harm and damaging people's...

When they have poor follow-up, they seem to overlook this and tend to report results without taking them into account. This was what Brian and I found with the CBT paper published by Chalder, Wessely and company based on clinic data.

This is one of the many papers Professor Crawley had to correct based on the investigation that the Health Research Authority requested be undertaken.

Ha! I'd forgotten about that part.

The details can get fuzzy. They started recruiting at 60. Nine months in, recruitment was not great so they relaxed it and moved it up to 65 so they'd get more patients. That was "ok" at first because 75 was the protocol threshold for "improvement" on the SF-36 and 85 was the threshold for...

Of course this is totally ridiculous. It was not a "preliminary" trial. These people are just a disgrace.

Phil is a very decent, thoughtful guy who has never as far as I have seen tried to do any more than describe his own experience. He does not try to extrapolate it to others or tell others what to do--but offers his own experience as a pathway he managed to be lucky enough to navigate. I haven't...

No, it arose out of the film but was not used in the film.

I always wondered how that "friends of Dorothy" thing came about. Speculation has been about Wizard of Oz as the inspiration, but not sure if that's been proven.

it had been around but once the Trump presidency started, everyone in US began using the term "gaslighting"