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A subsequent article from the same author on placebo https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/09/if-we-take-away-the-statistical-quirks-and-biases-is-there-any-placebo-effect-left/ And something related by him on broader issue of entrenched false beliefs in the healthcare...

Pleased to hear that.

Paul Glasziou Well that's a bust from the start. Across interventions, evidence certainty was mostly low to very low, and safety/feasibility varied. Yet that has never stopped him from recommending exercise before. Randomisation is sufficient control is the deceit upon which the entire...

Give it to S4ME to decide how to spend it. We couldn't possibly do a worse job than is already being done, and we will do it for free.

Nobody here will be surprised at this story, and certainly no female anywhere will. What is perhaps most disappointing is that it is continuing to happen in what is supposed to be one of the best health systems in the world. Sadly, Australia remains in the grip of the misogyny soaked...

Anti-science, par excellence. Wessely's talent and skill are basically in politics and sophistry, not science or medicine. Unfortunately he possesses that talent and skill in lavish abundance and has no hesitation to deploy them to his advantage.

Be amazed if it hadn't. Exactly. Why are the vastly greater opportunity costs not being factored in, or even mentioned?

And a lot worse than that. And sometimes not even unsaid.

How on earth do we counter such blatant inconsistency being endlessly allowed through the peer review process and mounting up as 'evidence'? Does reality not matter at all anymore?

Just continuing on the fine tradition of solving a problem by reframing it as something else while also denying it exists in the first place.

They can tell if you are using a VPN, and blanket bans on accessing via a VPN are an effective, if crude, tool to stop people watching from outside the country. Same problem here in Australia if I try to watch stuff on our national broadcaster (ABC). Have to turn off my VPN to access it.

They certainly have not put forward any robust body of evidence for it, let alone demonstrated a capacity to deal with it in any constructive manner. In short, they have no claim to actual expertise, nor hence any authority over our lives.

Very important issue, and one of the most difficult for patients to deal with.

and the redistribution of responsibilities. The avoidance of blame by the experts.

It is now beyond any doubt that this is the greatest and cruelest catastrophe in modern medicine. It has failed every serious test of explanatory and therapeutic power. Yet there it stands, apparently completely immune to any legitimate criticism and meaningful accountability, instead...

This is clearly just the latest in a long line of propaganda puff pieces the psychosomatic (aka BPS) cult has been endlessly flooding the sacred peer-review literature with, all using the same basic template and repeating the same brazen anti-science drivel, to give the appearance of robust...

The fact that they are removing anything critical tells you all you need to know. If they really believed in what they were saying and that it had a solid evidence base they would not have any trouble being able to bat away criticisms. But they can't.

I agree with this. Patients must not let our desperation cloud our judgement and caution. Most long-termers have made that mistake, including me. Unfortunately it is still being made by some patient support groups and 'patient-led' research.

PACE promotion.

Or patients are learning the rehab approach is useless, and often worse, and quite rightly voting with their feet.