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Wonderful. And it lacks a byline because it's from his blog, which I thought must be a general academic outlet like The Conversation.

Good suggestion, chrisb. Russell specialised in eating disorders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Russell Shepherd was noted for Olympian detachment towards patients https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shepherd_(psychiatrist) Dolan researches how emotion impacts on cognition and its...

Anyone come up with an answer to the thread title? Asking for a friend.

From the first PACE participants newsletter: Fine (www.fine-trial.net) is a “sister” study to PACE currently being carried out in the north west of England. It will show [know] how effective a “pragmatic rehabilitation” programme, provided by nurses in a patient’s home, is. The programme has the...

This is coursework by a trainee physio. Very limited search strategy; studies not evaluated for sources of bias; original authors' claims of efficacy and safety taken at face value. Can be safely ignored.

They're already under attack over GET: "The large number of patients experiencing post-viral fatigue after covid-19 has now shone a spotlight on the controversial technique again. Among this number is Paul Garner, professor of infectious disease at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and...

Freud is still remembered fondly there?

Maybe they have to keep changing them to stay ahead of public understanding of their jargon. I recall one of them saying that they chose the term "functional" because it sounds physical to a patient, when they really mean psychological.

That's a good description of epidemiology. BPS was a poorly defined attempt to humanise biomedicine which by the 1970s was seen as sometimes inhuman. Since then it's become a flag of convenience for psychs wanting to expand their sphere of influence.

Thanks. I've snipped the relevant bit. The rest is boilerplate.

@MSEsperanza One Health articles were removed by Companies House as usual for defunct companies. The Objects (3 - 3.3.) state that they were set up to push the BPS model. They did not divulge this to PACE recruits (nor any other CoI), breaching Helsinki before they even started. They did not...

@Peter Trewhitt You are right. White & Chalder set up the company One Health explicitly to promote BPS to government and the NHS. They named PACE to reflect their "pull yourself together" ideology. FINE, SMILE, FITNET are from the same mould. CODES not so much, so no wonder Chalder couldn't...

Done. To be fair, my MP Julian Sturdy has been supportive of pwME over the years.

@sly-saint It's almost as if it's not the patients who are "mad, bad and dangerous to know".

This looks fascinating @wigglethemouse and potentially quite a find. Did you screenshot the output? I ask because I can't find the save or export function.

Tom, you are amazing. I think Westcare released a simplified version of the 1994 report aimed at the public, which I threw away 20 years ago. Now I'm looking at the history of ME, to find you've archived the actual report plus these others is incredible. Many thanks.

Brooke has a seriously disabling condition, which makes this study even more remarkable

Which leaves them wide open to being gamed by reviewers with agendas to push.

Cochrane was originally intended as a stand against the journals that were full of pharma advertising disguised as trials, and that was laudable. And the reviewers were unpaid volunteers, which was seen as a stand for citizen science. However, could the volunteer model partly explain why...