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exactly. It is the same approach taken by Archives of Disease in Childhood with the LP study. All the things were wrong, as I documented, but let's just regard them as technical violations rather than substantive.

Interesting that NIPH is involved. They're not pushing for anything on the revised bad exercise review or other BPS stuff? Is Atle Freitheim involved?

I'm trying to keep a positive attitude, but it's hard.

Words like "ground-breaking," "world-first," etc are best not being tossed around like this--by scientists, press officers or the journalists who write about this stuff.

and would this be perceived as a "defeat" for the Lloyd and the rest of the GET/CBT ideological brigades there?

wow. just wow.

And it was only one-sided printing so there were more pieces, although it was worse for the environment.

Also...the MUS session was completely anti-MUS as a diagnostic category. I can see where the description of the session might have made it sound like somehow it was trying to explain why it might make sense to include ME in MUS but that of course was completely not the point. Joan Crawford, a...

This should not be taken as if they were trying to prove or say that it's better to have an ME specialist. That would be a misinterpretation. In the survey, they presumably asked respondents whether they got GET from from a self-styled specialist or a generalist. Given that the PACE folks always...

I said "ass," not "arse." I'm American!

yes, this seemed to be a settled agreement. I'm surprised it didn't survive past May.

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...