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  1. Woolie
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    (not a recommendation) ME/CFS and Freeze: using Naviauxs research to explain the role of trauma

    How exciting! Real kudos! Sad to say mine were boring immigrants. Wait a minute, shouldn't all Australians with non-aboriginal ethnicity get...
    Post by: Woolie, Sep 23, 2018 in forum: Other treatments
  2. Woolie
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    (not a recommendation) ME/CFS and Freeze: using Naviauxs research to explain the role of trauma

    Given that our ancestors going back a hundred years or more probably all had pretty ghastly, dangerous, insecure, violent, death-filled, and...
    Post by: Woolie, Sep 23, 2018 in forum: Other treatments
  3. Woolie
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    (not a recommendation) ME/CFS and Freeze: using Naviauxs research to explain the role of trauma

    I'm immediately suspicious of the results of this study, because they immediately break them down by gender without stating up-front that gender...
    Post by: Woolie, Sep 23, 2018 in forum: Other treatments
  4. Woolie
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    A general thread on the PACE trial!

    Oh, okay. Point taken.
    Post by: Woolie, Sep 17, 2018 in forum: Psychosomatic research - ME/CFS and Long Covid
  5. Woolie
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    A general thread on the PACE trial!

    That's true. There's no guarantee that the primary researchers are any good either. I don't think the PACE psychologists and psychiatrists...
    Post by: Woolie, Sep 17, 2018 in forum: Psychosomatic research - ME/CFS and Long Covid
  6. Woolie
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    A general thread on the PACE trial!

    I think that's a little unfair. That's not at all what I said. I've seen many times on the forum people placing unreasonable expectations on...
    Post by: Woolie, Sep 17, 2018 in forum: Psychosomatic research - ME/CFS and Long Covid
  7. Woolie
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    A general thread on the PACE trial!

    I would say its unreasonable to expect a statistician to understand the psychological factors that may influence outcomes - recall bias,...
    Post by: Woolie, Sep 17, 2018 in forum: Psychosomatic research - ME/CFS and Long Covid
  8. Woolie
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    A general thread on the PACE trial!

    One other point. The study hypothesis is never a theory or and idea. Its always a specific outcome of a specific study. So the PACE authors...
    Post by: Woolie, Sep 17, 2018 in forum: Psychosomatic research - ME/CFS and Long Covid
  9. Woolie
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    A general thread on the PACE trial!

    I will try to explain as best as I can. Traditional scientific methodology is based on the idea of hypothesis testing. You come up with a...
    Post by: Woolie, Sep 17, 2018 in forum: Psychosomatic research - ME/CFS and Long Covid
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    Bristol Randomised Trials Collaboration

    Oh, this is a name I've heard. He has some interesting things to say. ie. actual genuine expertise in research methodology. He's interested in...
    Post by: Woolie, Sep 17, 2018 in forum: General ME/CFS news
  11. Woolie
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    Metabolic features and regulation of the healing cycle—A new model for chronic disease pathogenesis and treatment, Robert K Naviaux, 2018

    Fair question, deserves a considered answer. "... a hitch in cell danger response, natural cellular reaction to harm" sounds to me very...
    Post by: Woolie, Sep 9, 2018 in forum: Other health news and research
  12. Woolie
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    Metabolic features and regulation of the healing cycle—A new model for chronic disease pathogenesis and treatment, Robert K Naviaux, 2018

    Whoa, my bullshitometer just went into overdrive! Anyone else get that reaction? Or is it just me?
    Post by: Woolie, Sep 8, 2018 in forum: Other health news and research
  13. Woolie
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    Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for MuScle Disease (ACTMuS): Protocol for a two-arm randomised controlled trial of a brief guided self-help ACT prog

    I've had similar musings myself! Surely, if its all about verbal thought, then the very intelligent should more prone to depression than the...
    Post by: Woolie, Sep 8, 2018 in forum: Other health news and research
  14. Woolie
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    ME mentioned in Sunday Times (UK) article about BBC presenter Kirsty Young's fibromyalgia

    I read the comments section of the original Times article, and was shocked by the number of self-declared FM sufferers who bought into the idea...
    Post by: Woolie, Sep 8, 2018 in forum: General ME/CFS news
  15. Woolie
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    Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for MuScle Disease (ACTMuS): Protocol for a two-arm randomised controlled trial of a brief guided self-help ACT prog

    What we think we know about other animals - and don't - is almost as huge as what we think we know about mental illness - and don't. To put it...
    Post by: Woolie, Sep 7, 2018 in forum: Other health news and research
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    Criticism of PACE trial from Daniël Lakens

    Lakens is an important figure in the movement for the improvement of psychological science (SIPS). He has great statistical skills, and has...
    Post by: Woolie, Sep 7, 2018 in forum: Psychosomatic news - ME/CFS and Long Covid
  17. Woolie
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    Professor Michael Sharpe

    Hell yea, its like a Wessely mini-me!
    Post by: Woolie, Sep 7, 2018 in forum: Psychosomatic news - ME/CFS and Long Covid
  18. Woolie
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    Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for MuScle Disease (ACTMuS): Protocol for a two-arm randomised controlled trial of a brief guided self-help ACT prog

    Yes, this is my suspicion too. Emotions are at the core of cognition and drive everything. Our thoughts, our feelings, our experience, our...
    Post by: Woolie, Sep 7, 2018 in forum: Other health news and research
  19. Woolie
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    Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for MuScle Disease (ACTMuS): Protocol for a two-arm randomised controlled trial of a brief guided self-help ACT prog

    Good for you, @Jonathan Edwards! You are not being at all unfair. The relationship between thought and language is in fact my area of expertise....
    Post by: Woolie, Sep 7, 2018 in forum: Other health news and research
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    BMJ: Pressure grows on Lancet to review “flawed” PACE trial

    Pretty sure additional therapies were only offered after the trial endpoint (52 weeks/12 months). Those wishing to find evidence of "cheating" in...
    Post by: Woolie, Sep 7, 2018 in forum: Psychosomatic research - ME/CFS and Long Covid
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