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http://www.virology.ws/2018/06/18/trial-by-error-sir-simon-scores-an-own-goal/

Possibly. But I'm so far behind in all the pieces I should be writing!

And no apology for enabling and abetting PACE. Action For ME really should take responsibility for that at this stage.

Michael Sharpe has now blocked me on twitter.

This seems like a serious issue here. No one can recall what Simon's role was? Amazing!

That's been the question! The Lancet of course won't say. One notion has been that perhaps the Dutch colleagues who wrote the commentary were involved. Maybe Sir Simon? Who knows? In any event, we know it was "fast-tracked" so it likely didn't go through anything particularly rigorous. Of...

And remember that the PACE authors read that commentary by their Dutch buddies and vetted it before publication. So they were very well aware of the words that were used to describe their outcomes. They have no possible claim of ignorance on how the commentary was used to get the word "recovery"...

@Esther12 I agree with all those points, especially about the objective measures. I wasn't aware of anything beforehand and never heard of PACE until the day it came out and I had to write a news story about it. I just meant that had they actually reported their original findings, that would...

@Esther12 What design do you think would have? It always seemed to me that if they had published honest results, it would have been like the reanalysis paper--end of story. CBT/GET don't work except to produce transient subjective reports of improvement. The trial would have served its proper...

Does anyone have a direct e-mail for Godwin?

It's great that Godwin is weighing in, although I don't really understand why in PACE the model was not falsifiable--it was falsifiable. The results per the protocol assessments proved that the model of the illness and treatments was wrong--or at least was not borne out in this experiment. They...

Yup. At some point I hope this will all come back to bite those who have abetted this crap. I'm lucky that Berkeley has shown that it actually does try to maintain some standards when it comes to academic freedom, even for non-tenured academic personnel like me. Perhaps that allegiance to...

Right, and don't forget that the Vice Chancellor of Bristol University has also complained directly to the Chancellor at UC Berkeley in order to stop my work exposing Professor Crawley. More than once.

Has anyone read Simon's book? Does it say that people can be "recovered" and "disabled" on measures simultaneously and it doesn't matter? Thanks for posting his tweets here, since he blocked me a couple of years ago.

Godwin has expressed his opinion about the study. He's been honest and straightforward. That's fantastic! For myself, I don't have an interest in pressing him to assess the intentions or motivations of those who conducted the trial.

Hi, @Awol I'm wondering if you can explain what this sentence means? How has he been "played" (and by whom?) and what relationship does it have to your discussion with someone at CMRC? Thanks!

"Godwin's law of Hitler analogies" is pretty well-known. That's why Wessely referenced him I guess--because someone had tweeted about "banality of evil," which became the introduction of the Hitler analogy into the conversation.

Thanks, that's helpful. So part of the success of this depends on how many MPs decide to spend their time to attend? Or is the main goal really to put sound bites and memes into public circulation via media exposure?

Can someone explain the process here to non-UK people? I thought last week Monaghan was just getting signers for a motion, and suddenly a debate got scheduled. How did that happen so quickly? And then there are Westminster debates vs. House of Commons debates and the difference is...? And this...

@Lucibee is right, he's not questioning Carolyn's motives but her questioning of the PACE authors' motives. Why he is choosing to engage is another question. I would agree with him that Nazi comparisons are virtually never appropriate or apt. However, this hypersensitive soul is the same guy who...