Better days: When PLOS Blogs honored my post about fatal flaws in the PACE chronic fatigue syndrome follow-up study (2015)

[Hoopoe]

https://www.coyneoftherealm.com/blo...chronic-fatigue-syndrome-follow-up-study-2015

 

[Cheshire]

Michael Sharpe tried to argue:

 

[Indigophoton]

What fatal flaws are these. I assume you read the paper ?

Mind. Boggled.

Documenting placebo effects and pretending patients are genuinely getting better. Labelling patients that continue to be sick and disabled as recovered. Hiding data that shows the treatment was ineffective. Just to name a few.

Well - you conflate several papers

OK, well at least he admits there are several papers with errors...

 

[Sean]

PACE is a case study in how to systematically maximise known methodological biases and confounders, and arbitrarily declare them to be legitimate therapeutic benefits.