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Anyone who comes, please come up and introduce yourself! I'm also talking in Newry, N.Ireland, on Nov 5th. But if other groups want me to come and talk locally, I'd be happy to do other events on my next trip. I am always looking for reasons to leave Trump-landia for a while.

It's hard to argue against physical activity in the broader sense when you're looking at population-level data. I mean, I assume the human species evolved to move constantly across the savannah while hunting, gathering, and escaping from predators. From what I gather, this piece by Godlee isn't...

Ha! Very interesting. I e-mailed Steve Olson last week to do a follow-up and we've scheduled a time to talk. And then I just saw your note. So we're on the same page (or screen, I guess)...

Yes, I know Jodi--she's very sharp. I haven't engaged her in this issue, but perhaps I should.

Hi, Andy--I had noticed the links weren't there. Then I noticed you mentioned it. Then I added them. No glitch. With the letter, I cut-and-pasted from what was sent to Dr Godlee. So that typo was original.

Hm. I added the links. I think I'll leave the typo since that's how it was sent.

You can be sure members of the NICE committee are being made aware of these comments.

You can believe this will feature prominently in upcoming blog posts and perhaps open letters.

Actually, the journal closed the case itself, it would seem, without acting on COPE's advice to investigate further. The COPE statement from the journal was full of misleading information and actually false information--such as the claim that the study involved anonymous data when in fact...

He's supposed to be having a book about ME published soon. And I had no idea he practiced psychotherapy. Did he have training as a therapist? I mean, are GPs in Canada allowed to provide psychotherapy?

Ah, that's interesting. I'll amend my post I guess.

Hi, I just saw this--yes, I'm interested. I don't remember getting a Facebook message about this but certainly I miss things.

The idea that I was "instrumental" in persuading Cochrane to do anything is ridiculous. I had a meeting with David Tovey in which I pressed the case. Period.

He also tweeted about my original Trial by Error series that it was an "ad hominem attack," if I remember correctly.

anybody have the full study?

This is true of course. But a well-written account of, say, 20 or however many clinic patients interviewed or questioned in a systematic way would be a contribution to the literature. Even if if were randomized, they would find a way to criticize it. Qualitative research can't be used to make...

I think a qualitative study of people's accounts on this would definitely make a good paper.

This might or might not be true. But I see no reason to take their word for it that the change was based on the qualitative findings, especially given a history of not telling the truth about the conduct of the trial. They didn't need to analyze the data to know which way trends were heading and...

About the school attendance records--this was listed in both the protocols for the feasibility trial as well as the full trial protocol. They didn't report it in the feasibility trial report. They presumably already knew they didn't have the "capacity" to gather those data by the time they wrote...

wow! what kind of an insane person would devote that kind of energy on such a piece of garbage??