This. The aim is not to change the minds of those already lost to this nonsense. Forget them, they are a lost cause. The aim is to get enough...
Circular definitional unfalsifiable 'diagnoses'. The perfect system for the lazy, incompetent, fraudulent, and downright psychopathic. :grumpy:
I wish I had the luxury of being able to simply redefine my way out of my health problems.
Thanks to all the letter writers. :thumbup: One small typo in Goldin's letter. Godlee is mispelt as Goldee.
Researcher: 'Oh, no way, I always wear my Equipoise Socks™ at work.' Or late reporting, or misreporting/misinterpreting. He is just trying to be...
Good discussion. Once again, much thanks to Prof. Racaniello for his solid support for @dave30th and his work.
Francis Collins has been explicitly saying this to us for some years. In my experience it is more often that person's boss, who is not a...
This. Governments and corporations love this shit. Gives them a pseudo-scientific, pseudo-compassionate excuse to do nothing, and worse.
Excellent blog. In other words, they have arranged things so their claim is immune to falsification. Which is basically the definition of...
How original, and free from spin. NOT. The failure to acknowledge that critics include many established senior researchers and clinicians can be...
Including financial costs. LP ain't cheap. Getting pretty low when your business model is fleecing sick desperate people.
The fact that it passed peer review without including a detailed description of the methodology is particularly disturbing. The reviewers and...
I got sick in my early 20s. I am now in my mid-50s. I have been sick (with no remissions) for much longer than I was healthy. How am I supposed...
That link contains a Facebook referral. The clean link is [MEDIA]
Missing data is missing data. Having documented reasons for it being missing is nice, but it is still missing.
The frequency of changes in terminology is a good inverse index of how poorly the subject is understood. The more often it changes, the less...
And they wonder why we question their integrity. This is Clinical Trials 101 they are repeatedly failing. There are no excuses.
I think the story is they started by fooling themselves, and when it became obvious, they switched to trying to fool others.
Or to wherever the ball randomly ended up after they kicked it with blindfolds on.
It gets better: PACE was originally described as 'controlled' in the PACE protocol paper (2007), but not in the main paper (2011). Which means...
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