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Cochrane ME/CFS GET review temporarily withdrawn

Discussion in 'Psychosomatic news - ME/CFS and Long Covid' started by Trish, Oct 17, 2018.

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  1. MSEsperanza

    MSEsperanza Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    MSEsperanza, Oct 20, 2018
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    Forbin Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    "Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in." - GK Chesterton

    Of course, it doesn't always work. :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Tlob3U_1o


     
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  3. Sean

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    I am of the view that the 'temporary' withdrawal is basically the last warning to the review authors to get their act together and provide substantive responses and appropriate changes, or the review will be permanently withdrawn.

    This is closer to the end of a long process than to the start.

    If Tovey is genuinely trying to clean up Cochrane then he must give – and be clearly seen to give – the authors of dodgy review papers every possible opportunity to correct their papers first.

    It is how I would do it.

    It takes time, and seems overly generous and bureaucratic, but it covers the necessary bases as much as practically possible. Pulling a major, influential, and controversial review from the literature is no small thing, and you have to get it right, technically and politically.
     
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    Snow Leopard Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    All the minus SD stuff is bullshit because the general population distribution is highly skewed with a prominent ceiling effect. The should be comparing to a population percentile. For the general population with demographics similar to the people in the PACE trial, a SF36 PF score of 60 is somewhere around the 10th percentile.
     
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    Sly Saint Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    could someone screen save all these Clare Gerada tweets; they might disappear.
     
    Sly Saint, Oct 20, 2018
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    Some already did.
     
    Solstice, Oct 20, 2018
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  10. MSEsperanza

    MSEsperanza Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Her reply to Keith Geraghty is screen saved.

    I also screen saved her first reply to Trish and her statements re accountability/ authority .

    Will post later.

    Edit: Here are the (only) ones I saved:
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    Clare_G_to Keith_Geraghty.jpg

    Edit 2: Good to see that others are doing more professional screenshots.
    I already had missed this one now being reposted:

    https://twitter.com/user/status/1053612177272246273
     
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    Lucibee Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Keep digging, Clare. Keep digging...

    cgerada_20oct2018.png
     
    Lucibee, Oct 20, 2018
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    Of course one significant source of pressure on doctors might be when they give badly flawed advice to ME patients, in the sincere belief they are right and doing their best, when in fact they have themselves have been hoodwinked by the heavily influential flawed research. In some cases they might be considered victims of it as well. Doctors these days must be hugely too busy to follow all the research, and have to rely on the integrity of medical researchers, and to trust the system.
     
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    Kalliope, Oct 20, 2018
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  14. MSEsperanza

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    We know it is possible to be both patient and doctor, Clare. Some of us ME sufferers are doctors too.
     
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    I feel sure that Dr Speight will be an interested observer of that.
     
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    Just to go back to the original topic: Have Cochrane issued any formal statement on this yet?
     
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    Kind of ironic that the lady tweeter is now off to join the general public on a march to apply pressure to the politicians to get their way on Brexit. Shouldn’t the public just sit quietly and accept whatever elected politicians decide or do about their future ? Think how difficult this is making if for politicians and how it would seem if they listened to the people or even bowed to public pressure and slightly changed course. It would be a disgrace.
     
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    As far as I can see not. It seems the press release was not from them. The press release says Cochrane have taken the decision to withdraw, not that they have withdrawn.
     
    Jonathan Edwards, Oct 20, 2018
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    Hoopoe Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    If you're on good terms with Cochrane, maybe it's time to suggest that they release their own statement that makes it very clear that the review is being withdrawn in reponse to high quality critique. It would be an opportunity for Cochrane to restore some trust and create a more positive relationship with patients.
     
    Hoopoe, Oct 20, 2018
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