BBC: Chronic fatigue trial results 'not robust', new study says

Reading this made me happy. I'm so glad we have you in our corner Carolyn you've all done a superb job with this study

 

Just an idea.... perhaps we could start a thread for the AP journalist entitled something like "S4ME thanks Jennifer Cockrell for her article" and then we could all put our thanks and comments there & then someone could tweet her a link to it? It would be great if she would come here, especially if it was also pointed out that she could read comments all over the forum from David tuller, Carolyn Wilshire, Jonathan Edwards etc.

For that matter mightn't it be an idea to do a thread for Tom Whipple too? (the times journalist) In fact for everyone that does a decent article.

What does everyone think?

 

don't think the Express got the memo......
rehash of some article about feeling tired

https://www.express.co.uk/life-styl...-feeling-tired-all-the-time-extreme-tiredness

 

Nothing in the Guardian?

 

https://twitter.com/user/status/976698591355039744

 

Since they usually do more harm than good with their magical thinking, chakra aligning, meditating and pity poor Esther Craweyling I count that as a win.

 

Wow this coverage make me so happy A billion thanks to the authors for their thorough work and analysis. Finally our "side" can be heard in the public too

 

lets not get excitied about nothing in the guardian..... there are the weekend supplements to come out yet. If we get away without some egregious BS from someone (guardian, telegraph,indepenent) it really will be a win.

 

I have this vision of a sitcom based on PACE with star parts played by somebody like Leonard Rossiter and Penelope Keith. Each episode would include a breakfast scene of almost complete silence, broken by Rossiter saying 'Nothing in the Guardian?' to which Keith would respond with a don't be silly 'no dear'.

And so it goes on.

 

haha that would be fabulous You could have Crawley played by Jennifer Saunders, & have Tom Selleck sweeping in from America as Dave Tuller whom she'd call "that pain in the arse American".

ooo and Nigel Hawthorne could be in it as well

ETA no no it wouldnt be 'pain in the arse american', it would be "that frightful American!" (- that may not translate outside Britain)

 

Please God no, I like Jennifer Saunders. Crawley would have to play her own role as she is the only person who could be as convincingly stupid as herself.

 

I like her too @large donner very much, but in my mind this would be satire, & i think she'd do a great job of satirising EC

 

Why is it, as soon as Penelope Keith gets a mention, I think it sounds amazing.
Still smiling at the thought.

 

For some reason I get this image of a repeating gag each week, where someone opens a cupboard and SW's head pops out ... so they promptly shove it back in again and close the cupboard.

Edit: And each week it would be a different cupboard. Kitchen cupboard, bathroom cabinet, larder, etc.

 

She's a national treasure .

A few years ago I found myself sitting one table away from Penelope Keith while enjoying a cream tea and scone at a National Trust restaurant. I think I never felt so British as I did on that day.

 

I just thought I'd point out that this was not from the PACE authors, or at least, it doesn't say it was.

The identity of the author is far from clear, but it says:

"Any specific expertise relevant to studied paper (beyond statistical)?

Experience in the design and analysis of randomised clinical trials. Statistician for Cochrane Collaboration."

Thanks for the comments.

 

I'm going for either Denzel Washington or Idris Elba to play me.

 

Are you African-American? Not that it matters. You represented us who may or may not be, but are surely not fukuda...