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thanks for the response! much appreciated.

whether it was legitimate or not, the appropriate way to address it was not to swap outcomes and pretend they didn't. I think people in the UK educational system could answer better whether it makes sense or not. but the bottom line is they had null results. honest researchers take...

What the investigators claimed was that the school attendance wasn't a good primary outcome because they were told by students that there were some issues related to exams they are required to take that they can study for at home. So that the school attendance therefore didn't really correspond...

Hi, @Hilda Bastian! yes, Cochrane rejected the IPD review, based on scathing comments from Jonathan and others outside the usual suspects on whom Cochrane had previously relied to vet these seriously flawed CFS reviews. And then it also withdrew the published protocol for the IPD review. I...

Moderator note: A quote from a deleted post has been removed. It referred to confusion between the SMILE trial and the school absence study. well, mixed up a bit, yes, but there was something in what you remembered! :) In SMILE, the primary outcome in the feasibility trial was school...

nice one.

I don't know this expression. what's it mean?

which one was that?

And high-profile scientists and academics are backing them up. This parallels what happened over several years in late 1980s with HIV, ACT UP and US regulations on pharmaceuticals.

it is the epitome of what Brian Hughes called "eminence-based science." If treatment should be based on Dr Perez personal opinion, there's not much need for studies.

well, they're tracking an association, so we don't know that it's a causal relationship. Very likely those of Medicare age who took them were different than those who didn't take them in multiple ways.

Most of what I wrote in those years was print-based and in newspaper archives and not online. Most of it was standard coverage but I thought some pieces were pretty good at the time. I don't know how they would stand up if I read them again.

a helpful analysis. In that sense, these MUS patients are not unlike our famous US "independent" voters, the ones with mushier or less rigid voting priorities who are can be poached by either side with clever arguments.

Exactly right. They interpret the payback people experience after activity in psychological terms that fit their hypothesis.

Larry was a very angry man and also lovable, although I only knew him slightly in the '80s. When the epidemic occurred, he found an appropriate target for his rage. I was involved in ACT-UP from its start at the gay and lesbian community center (no one said LGBTQ then) when Larry came to talk on...

so paralysis and speech disturbances were greater among soldiers? and these were usually from acute events? Hm. just a wild guess, but maybe physical injuries from the acute event during war caused these problems?

Jo, how entwined are the back stories of BPS and liaison psychiatry, do you know? In other words, are you forwarding a hypothesis or do you think it's an actual fact? I'd never heard of "liaison psychiatry" as a think until it came up in this context. It doesn't seem to play as much of a role in...

Sure, but at least Jonathan got a response from Dagbladet that they got his letter. I didn't even get that.

I still have no response from Dagbladet to my letter--any thoughts on what I should do?

that seems to be about it.