I was thinking the same I'm sure I read something by him in the early 90s but no idea what.
Although I would agree it does make the point that statistical significance doesn't necessarily mean a difference that a patient would notice....
It is also a paper that is widely read at universities so perhaps stories attacking poor quality academic research don't go well with the readership.
That address bounced it seems to be observer.readers@observer.co.uk
I assume they will have an ethics sub committee (of 2) turn it into a full trial and merge the results in together or is this something that is...
I thought this was a shocking comment What they are basically admitting to is very late publication (and possibly design) of the protocol duing...
But they may see it as keeping in with the establishment in the UK and that as important to their credibility. I often think that those pushing...
Cochrane has been their last line of defense for sometime so to see it challenged and even Tovey (who would normally back them) being concerned...
The Guardian have a long history of censoring comments made on ME articles that are critical of PACE.
Given the emails around this are public it could be very embarrassing for Cochrane to fail to deal with the issues. Although it would surprise me...
Interesting that the journalist seems to mainly cover politics and sport.
If people find it easy to become and remain thin doesn't this reduce the value of such activities? I wondered if the metabolic factors made it...
I think in general the Guardian has deteriorated in the last few years - very few articles there these days seem to have any degree of analysis.
So if a medical professional reads information from a trusted source such as Cochrane or a 'good' textbook or a paper in a good journal how much...
I put no and explained why the specialist services have no value as there are no treatments but the services push them despite the lack of evidence.
But does the meme that is generated and hence the diagnoses that people are given (by the muddle-headed-physicians) mean that they do need to be...
The question should be around sampling methods. If for example, you were to sample people as they came out of the supermarket then that would...
I feel quite shocked that someone could write this and an editor could publish it. As a paper it seems completely unaware of the literature in the...
I've only skimmed the paper but this worried me: When using ML you typically split the data into training, validation and test sets and quote...
I think it could be of value along with a more detailed look at processes and how they should work. Ideally interviews with people working in a...
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