Author here... I would like to thank the author of PLOS Biology, Nona Pariente, first for inviting me to contribute this editorial (which is...
I am in contact with the main French group for Long Covid patients, who are taking up the cudgels against this rather flawed paper. It even has...
Yes. When they switched from binary to Likert scoring (I think this was the order of the switch), APT/SMC results got better by more than CBT/GET...
My reading is that CBT and GET have better outcomes (improvement and recovery) than APT and SMC with either scoring scheme, but that the gap...
Regardless of the identity of the reviewers, it is extremely unlikely that they were given the data, or indeed that they even asked for them....
I did these analyses back in May, but I don't remember where I got the description from, so the explanation that follows comes from reading my...
Not only should it be allowed, it should be mandatory. But in fact it should be mandatory for the authors not to play silly buggers and pretend...
It certainly wasn't my intention to defend the researchers here. My only point was that the culture of how professional science is done is such...
There is an ongoing debate in bio/medical/psychological research about exactly this issue. Publishing a paper mostly involves showing that your...
I've also done my share of DB development. But nobody uses database software to analyse or store data from a scientific study. It would be a huge...
I find it absolutely inconceivable that there is not, somewhere in the vaults at QMUL, a single file with all of the variables in it. That's how...
OK, done that. :) I see now. While I was continuing to reproduce Table 3, adding the number of people who improved, I decided to see whether the...
The latest release came in 5 files, with names that began with the digits 2 through 6 (perhaps because 1 was the first file released? I wasn't...
I have found some time to start building some code this evening. I reproduced some of the values from Table 3, where we have fatigue and physical...
There were no common variables. :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: All I was able to do was merge the columns, on the assumption that the participant...
I don't think this sentence is very helpful. The issue is their suggestion of causality, not the use of the word "predict" in itself. IMO the new...
>>It seems like "the data thugs" might be able to help us debunk some of the BPS work. FWIW, I do not think the tools that my colleagues and I...
I think the main point here is that he talked about "people who go on to develop chronic fatigue syndrome later on", but he didn't provide any...
It has occurred to me that this is a possibility, but even if the new study was not statistically flawed, it don't think it would provide evidence...
I'm feeling slightly guilty about my blog post. On the one hand, evidence of an immune system link would be positive news for patients, but on the...
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