Type I errors (falsely reported an effect when it isn't there), also known as a false positive. Type II errors (failing to report an effect that...
If you remember the good old days, you weren't there.
Yes, I think there is more mileage in this yet, because it exposes both deliberate misrepresentation by the authors, and poor quality...
Pure arse covering, just in case it turns out to be true. If it wasn't about ME, then why did they use the London ME criteria for sub-grouping?...
One good place to start is a proper assessment of the PEM phenomena, and the true nature and extent of the alleged deconditioning. Even if that...
Huge thanks to everybody in the patient, medical, and parliamentary communities who made this debate possible and made sure it was well informed....
Lord Winston, for example, who should have known better, given his previous career was in medicine. Agree. We have to adapt to the phase the...
I can feel a crowd funding coming on for the first case.
Some good, some not so good: “...characterised by extreme and debilitating fatigue, particularly after exertion.” Doesn’t really capture it....
Being positive doesn't exclude being mightily pissed off. Anger is a powerful motivator.
Oops. :oops: Zimbardo dined out on that study long and hard.
A good, if very disturbing read. There really is something profoundly rotten at the core of UK medicine. How many more lives are going to be...
Exactly. He is playing games with words, and not playing very well either. Only communists, perverts, and those in denial of mental illness dress...
Oh, he knows. Just can't face the consequences of admitting it.
Nice work, @Sly Saint. Catch them out with their own words, the ones they voluntarily placed on the formal record multiple times, over decades....
Sadly, and quite apart from libel laws, that is the smart position for them to take at this point. They cannot be seen to prejudge it, which I...
Might be an interesting study to look at how many times in medicine a single poor quality (or at least a far from definitive) study somehow ends...
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If sustained at follow-up.
All the best, Joan, and thanks for wading through that soul destroying nightmare. They have their place. I just wish they knew what it was and...
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