Trial By Error: Three Years On...
Three years ago this month, Virology Blog published my 15,000-word investigation of the PACE trial, so this seems like a good time for a bit of reflection. I certainly didn’t expect this saga to drag on this long. I’ve kept at it mainly because of the UK...
A blog about personal experience of PACE recommended 'treatments' published earlier this year.
https://mookpixie-chronicills.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-pace-trial-complaint.html
From FB 8th Oct
The Impatient Revolution
8 October at 09:50 ·
Summary of today’s four hour interview with Professor Malcolm Hooper (UK) on ME, Lyme, human rights and global health policies that are based on fraudulent research.
The full interview will be included in Huib Kraaijeveld’s new...
The four videos in the PACE "Trilogy" are now ready! (I underestimated how much had to be put into the third video!)
The PACE study was a flagship trial, aimed at demonstrating that cognitive behaviour therapy and graded exercise therapy could treat and even cure ME/CFS.
These are four short...
New post today from David F. Marks.
The PACE Trial: A Catalogue of Errors
Rarely in the history of clinical medicine have doctors and patients been placed to bitterly at loggerheads. The dispute had been a long time coming.
ETA:
Event:
Tuesday / 02 October 2018 7:00pm - Tuesday / 02 October 2018 9:00pm
Mourne Country Hotel
52 Belfast Road
Newry
BT34 1TR
https://www.communityni.org/event/pace-trial-one-greatest-scandals-21st-century
Edit: Video now on Facebook
Unfortunately I just saw this, and as it's happening in 12 hours I won't be able to get myself there. If this was posted, I didn't see it...here or anywhere else, until just now. I'm guessing this won't be recorded, but who knows. Wish I could go to point out the webpage from Oxford, among other...
Professor stops researching ME/CFS after intimidation (M. Sharpe)
https://demonitor.kro-ncrv.nl/artikelen/hoogleraar-stopt-met-onderzoek-naar-mecvs-na-intimidaties
Google translate...
Via google translate:
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https://demonitor.kro-ncrv.nl/artikelen/hoe-ga-je-als-journalist-om-met-een-controversiele-wetenschappelijke-studie&edit-text=&act=url
Any Dutch speakers got a better translation...
Really just adding this to the calendar:
Topic: ‘Medically unexplained symptoms’: my clinical and research journey over 30 years
13th March 2019
Visiting speaker: Prof Trudie Chalder (King’s College London)
Chair: Prof Patrick Luyten
Location: G12, 1-19 Torrington Place...
Being too sick today to write the posts, hellos and welcome messages I would like to write, I instead asked the two nearest libraries to buy @Brian Hughes' Psychology in Crisis (just in case you don't know: most libraries have online forms for asking to buy a book ), and opened this thread...
@Cheshire first posted about this here, but I thought it was important enough to warrant its own thread.
https://www.actionforme.org.uk/news/pace-trial-and-behavioural-treatments-for-me/
Would someone who's on twitter please make this dutch journalist aware of...
- the S4ME PACE briefing paper: https://www.s4me.info/threads/science-for-me-pace-briefing-document.3140/#post-55894
- Graham's video...
Published this morning:
CHRONIC FATIGUE
Sir, Further to your report “Call for review of ‘flawed’ ME research”(Aug 21), as funders of the Pace trial we reject the view that the scientific evidence provided by the trial for using cognitive behavioural theory and managed exercise in the...
https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2018/08/22/the-uks-general-medical-council-just-threw-250000-disabled-people-under-a-bus/
I was going to complain about another piece using the 'all in the head' line, but it seems like this is tied up to personal things with his partner who has EDS III:
Good...
The BPS Brigades Score Another Own Goal
Not long ago, Sir Simon scored an own goal by enticing a childhood buddy to enter the PACE debate. That buddy, attorney and social commentator Mike Godwin, soon pronounced the trial—which Sir Simon had called “a thing of beauty”–to be “so profoundly...
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