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    "Abnormal illness behaviour" and the missing citations.

    So the results didn't fit their mental framework, but one just had to say that these results didn't mean what they mean, and here we are, no changes to the conclusion. (And quickly sweep the question of the validity of a tool that says that patients suffering a "recognised organic disease" are...
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    The Triumph of Eminence-Based Medicine - Brian Hughes

    Blog by @Brian Hughes https://notthesciencebit.net/2018/11/03/the-triumph-of-eminence-based-medicine/
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    Feedback on underperformance in patients with CFS: The impact on subsequent neuropsychological test performance, 2018, Roor, Knoop et al

    :jawdrop: There seriously is something wrong with psychology, which, for the most part, has nothing to do with science. But here, it is so obvious, I just can't believe it. It's not flaws anymore, it needs to be called what it is, it's f* fraud! And the way research in psychology is organised...
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    The Guardian's Science Weekly podcast - 2 November 2018 - What role should the public play in science?

    Can one imagine a more one sidded presentation? Great journalism Guardian.
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    The Guardian's Science Weekly podcast - 2 November 2018 - What role should the public play in science?

    MS: "everybody can go to twitter and they will see not very pleasant comments to me" Did MS engaging on twitter have ever had any aim other than collecting "abusive" replies? Anyway, I hope people will go to see how he treats anyone with a different view from his.
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    Guardian 'diabetes is biopsychosocial'

    Hba1c are expressed in percentage. It measures the proportion of haemoglobin cells that are loaded with sugar. The normal range is between 4 and 6%.
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    The development of an instrument to assess post-exertional malaise in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis and CFS (2018) Jason et al.

    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1359105318805819?journalCode=hpqa
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    Cochrane ME/CFS GET review temporarily withdrawn

    It seems there are more and more people outside the traditional "ME community" coming into the debate with some knowledge of the real problems with CBT/GET trials. Eg: Dearden's response is spot on
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    Cochrane ME/CFS GET review temporarily withdrawn

    Is she admiting that patients have to be submissive for her to feel OK? If she doesn't feel superior, omnipotent and allmighty, she gets anxious? Patients are not here to make you feel great, Clare. Try cocaine and leave them alone.
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    Cochrane ME/CFS GET review temporarily withdrawn

    Mentionned in their Week end reads:
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    Nick Brown looks at study on sexual harassment and 'CFS'

    Hmmm, the majority of kisses that children receive have nothing to do with sexual harassment...
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    Cochrane ME/CFS GET review temporarily withdrawn

    There have so far only been one sided articles and not a balanced one to counteract. But in total (and if things don't get worse in the following days, fingers crossed), the Reuters story has only be reused by a small number of second rate newspapers.
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    Cochrane ME/CFS GET review temporarily withdrawn

    :nailbiting: OMG, that's getting worse!:nailbiting:
  14. Cheshire

    Cochrane ME/CFS GET review temporarily withdrawn

    If anyone could prevent you from putting dirty images in our minds, it would be great.
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