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Yes, it's one-of-a-kind, thanks to Anil! I don't wear it much because I don't want to wear it out. Only for appropriate occasions.

But I don't get that. Is that standard in COPE submissions? Why bother moving dates around by months here or there? Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I mean, it certainly sounds like a similar case. But why would they bother to submit it to COPE at all?

I've written about the statement to COPE on the school absence study. I've also seen the COPE statement on the registration issue, and it does sound similar to the LP study. But the dates are off. Maybe they did that to disguise it? It would be excellent to have more groups from poorly...

Yes, of course they do. And I plan to write an open letter to MRC folks. But these enablers have already made it clear they think PACE was fine and done according to the appropriate standards of the time. They're all just engaged in self-protection. I'm hoping that at some point the weight of...

Hey no, I hadn't seen that. thanks for pointing me to it.

It would have been interesting to see Dr. Kahn-Harris take on denialism in the ME domain, since it's a kind of interesting dynamic--use of the accusation of denialism as an offensive weapon. The ones charging denialism are the anti-scientific denialists, who are the scientists themselves. But I...

Hi, just to be clear--I guess sharing the petition could be said to be "supporting" it, but I want to clarify that I'm not specifically endorsing it. It had garnered a fair amount of support and I thought it was newsworthy to share it, in light of the problems with the current situation.

I will believe what Fiona Godlee writes only after she addresses the obvious fraudulence of the SMILE trial and the serious ethical violations of the school absence study.

Thanks, that's not bad.

Hi, how would you have phrased this? I go back and forth on how much one should adjust language for people who are going to make bogus arguments no matter what the reality is.

I go back and forth on this. But not sending open letters and being deferential and polite hasn't worked...so it seems worth a try.

@Esther12, you always bring joy to the party. :)

No worries. I think in general it's best not to do it, and I've stopped.

My point was more that kd's points are the exact same as Sharpe's, so they might as well be the same person. I actually assume kd is someone else. I like how Sharpe still tweets at me, as if he hadn't blocked me.

I still don't get what they think they gain by posting such a lame editor's note. they can't possibly think it takes them off the hook.

That would be clearer, but he is an editor at one of the journals of BMJ, the company. So technically I guess it's accurate to call him a BMJ editor, but he's not an editor at the flagship journal, The BMJ.

I've tried to be very clear and specific and to keep repeating over and over again the very obvious problems with these studies, without making overly broad or ad hominem accusations. I think I'm making progress in denting the implacable resistance to acknowledging any problems--at BMJ if not...

yes what's that about?

Well if they could actually refute anything, that would help. but since they can't and they just remain silent or post opaque editor's notes that are content-less, they end up looking like losers. (I hope, anyway.) I don't think there is a shortage of people to whom I can write letters, nor a...

My guess is that the trial will ultimately be withdraw because of the technical methodological shenanigans. These were serious violations and would or should doom any study. I think that will make it easier to get traction on the serious and very legitimate questions raised about the LP itself...