It is truly unbelievable from any objective perspective that this person continues to get research funding and, presumably, still has a decent...
Is this "functional medicine," which is an alternative medicine movement in the US at least that uses "functional" with a different meaning than...
i agree with you! it makes no sense. All I was saying was that they always said it was a feasibility study.
to be fair (even) to Trudie Chalder, they did call it a feasibility trial in the protocol. it's true the findings suggest this is a dead end so...
I haven't read the paper, but do they explain why the identified "response shift" doesn't change the apparent effect of the intervention? Why...
Do you mean because it should have been assumed that the more robust masks did a better job?
I had to read it 2-3 times to understand it. The sentence had a lot of moving parts.
it might be that there are much more updated studies of the accuracy of the signs since the 2013 look.
well, let's see if anyone responds. this is the journal that published the bogus music-therapy and cbt study, in which one of the reviewers...
https://www.virology.ws/2022/07/13/trial-by-error-my-letter-to-bmj-paediatrics-open-about-missing-peer-reviews-for-crawley-paper/
Oy. I guess I have to, don't I?
i wrote this a couple years ago about the rule-in signs. it references some of the evidence for the claims....
Of course! They always interpret associations as causal but in the wrong direction
Is this Alison Wearden???
That is not really what the "rule-in" signs mean. I haven't seen "many common symptoms" among the rule-in signs they use. They're talking...
Yes, I've seen. They suggest that NiCE recommends these for "fatigue" and mention CBT-f. Just to make sure: There is not a separate guidance for...
Jo, can you elaborate? In the sense that choosing a primary outcome is not a popularity contest like voting for president or selecting Miss...
A historical note of inconsequential interest: In the late 70s, a widely advertised diet suppressant taken in the form of a kind of candy or...
Not finally, no. That was set up months ago--I assume after it got the regional ethics approval but while the final approval was still pending....
Yes, the situation certainly is harrowing to read about, and the 6 million euro settlement is eye-opening. Is this case the rare example of...
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