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Both Coles and Woolworths supermarkets have extended their quiet hour to every weekday, from 10:30-11:30am. (Happened early last year but I missed it.)

Rehabilitation professionals are trained to work productively in uncertainty, to intervene without full mechanistic explanation, and to build clinical legitimacy around trajectories of function rather than lesions. Utter drivel.

Medicine's version of cooking the books.

They clearly are utterly incapable of change.

If so then that is a credit point for AI and/or the competence of the person writing the prompt for it. Either way it is a win, IMO.

That abstract is actually a pretty good and concise summary, especially if it is a student paper. :thumbup: Apart from the heterogeneous multisystem, and multifactorial pathophysiology bits, which or may not be true, we just don't know enough yet to confidently make such statements. Take...

A subsequent article from the same author on placebo https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/09/if-we-take-away-the-statistical-quirks-and-biases-is-there-any-placebo-effect-left/ And something related by him on broader issue of entrenched false beliefs in the healthcare...

Pleased to hear that.

Paul Glasziou Well that's a bust from the start. Across interventions, evidence certainty was mostly low to very low, and safety/feasibility varied. Yet that has never stopped him from recommending exercise before. Randomisation is sufficient control is the deceit upon which the entire...

Give it to S4ME to decide how to spend it. We couldn't possibly do a worse job than is already being done, and we will do it for free.

Nobody here will be surprised at this story, and certainly no female anywhere will. What is perhaps most disappointing is that it is continuing to happen in what is supposed to be one of the best health systems in the world. Sadly, Australia remains in the grip of the misogyny soaked...

Anti-science, par excellence. Wessely's talent and skill are basically in politics and sophistry, not science or medicine. Unfortunately he possesses that talent and skill in lavish abundance and has no hesitation to deploy them to his advantage.

Be amazed if it hadn't. Exactly. Why are the vastly greater opportunity costs not being factored in, or even mentioned?

And a lot worse than that. And sometimes not even unsaid.

How on earth do we counter such blatant inconsistency being endlessly allowed through the peer review process and mounting up as 'evidence'? Does reality not matter at all anymore?

Just continuing on the fine tradition of solving a problem by reframing it as something else while also denying it exists in the first place.

They can tell if you are using a VPN, and blanket bans on accessing via a VPN are an effective, if crude, tool to stop people watching from outside the country. Same problem here in Australia if I try to watch stuff on our national broadcaster (ABC). Have to turn off my VPN to access it.

They certainly have not put forward any robust body of evidence for it, let alone demonstrated a capacity to deal with it in any constructive manner. In short, they have no claim to actual expertise, nor hence any authority over our lives.

Very important issue, and one of the most difficult for patients to deal with.

and the redistribution of responsibilities. The avoidance of blame by the experts.