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I am sure Ponting's response was not what SMC wanted to see. It demolishes the Stone statement and the absurd response from Sharpe et al. And why didn't they ask my BFF Esther Crawley to comment? Surely she would have given them a slam-dunk statement that despite any criticism, PACE remains a...

I am working on this issue...and doing some lobbying. I have a meeting with someone from the agency that administers NDIS tomorrow.

Actually hopefully there will be something in Lismore.

Actually, I should retract that about the Peter principle. It does imply that she has been competent to date.

Crawley's apparent promotion is clearly the Peter Principle at work.

Looking at what they did and at that statement by Chalder, it is clear that they manipulated what they said to exaggerate the claims. Given that Chalder has never publicly, as far as I have seen, explained or retracted that comment, it is fair to hold her to it. They colluded with each other and...

whether I meant "other" or "wrong," the main point is that Australians themselves should not want me driving there!! I am happy to leave any driving to them.

To my friend Professor Edwards' points--I have to look at the hours again, but it's now 9:35 am Monday morning in SF and 3:35 am Tuesday morning in Melbourne. And we just moved ourselves forward an hour this past weekend, so I'm confused about the time shift. Why isn't that 18 hours ahead? Do we...

Interesting. I do not think this BMJ Open decision will be the last we hear about this issue.

Well, and the 2016 highlight was really Alem Matthees' victory at the First-Tier Tribunal, which of course was what led to the reanalyses that she does highlight.

I hope people at Bristol have started to realize that she is becoming a liability. Universities don't usually like their faculty members to falsely accuse faculty at other well-known institutions of being libelous--not to mention in their inaugural addresses. They usually don't like their...

Thanks for flagging it. I had talked to her a few months ago. She seemed like a smart young woman. She came into this reporting really knowing very little about the issue, so she's done a terrific job. by all means, shower the article with positive comments!!

As I wrote, I think the changes as announced are positive, and it will take some time to see how it all plays out and whether those changes are followed by other positive developments. I believe in the integrity of some people who have been involved with CMRC and I have less confidence in the...

As you say, I think they're probably stonewalling and trying to figure out a way around it. What is there to investigate? Even if I didn't know about the COPE and BMJ policies when the letter was first sent, they certainly were aware of those policies. So seeing the documentation of what had...

Yes, I'm going to think about going this year. Last year it really wasn't an option.

Has Bristol mentioned anything about whatever "new role" she purportedly has? Bristol knows she has made false accusations of libel and has lied publicly on video about a cease and desist letter. I would not be surprised if they're not too happy with her right now. She is bringing unwanted...

I think the issue is mainly the combination of extending the feasibility trial PLUS swapping the outcomes. If everything had been kept exactly the same, then extending the feasibility trial would be much less problematic. My guess is the authors will argue that they didn't change the outcomes...

Presumably they have 20 or 40 days to appeal to the First-Tier Tribunal, I would assume. But QMUL would have to want to go through the public ridicule again over spending money on this, and that seems unlikely to me.

I haven't understood that point of the Cochrane reviewers--why are they saying the Likert findings are not significant when the post-hoc analysis from the FINE team said they were? I haven't looked closely at the numbers, but where is that contradiction coming from?

They made the change because the FINE trial had found null results with the bimodal scoring but significant results in a post-hoc analysis using Likert. They didn't mention that reasoning in PACE, of course. It made no sense not to provide both analyses, since they were already providing the...