I am sorry about that but this is basic probability theory applied to sets. I have been through all the relevant arguments. I may not have...
I agree, but I strongly suspect that the difficulty in meeting standards is almost entirely a reflection of the fact that the treatments don't...
Yes, we hear that all the time, but it is a contradiction. You only need rules if you don't understand how to work out if something is reliable...
Sure, but if people don't have common sense there is no point in trying to replace it with rules created by eminent people. The rules will always...
But the reason the data cannot be trusted is a mater of human nature - expectation bias. For robots or Vulcans like Mr Spock from Star Trek you...
The South African guy is not Santhouse. I have not come cross him before.
No, if the methodology is OK the studies will be right. They may not tell you what you want to know but they will be right on their own terms. You...
I see it as a desire to appear as an 'Outraged Medical Intellectual'. As to what the outrage is about that may not matter much.
I don't think the current government have any more of a clue as to the machinations of medical politics than the Flowerpot Men.
There is no justification for using rules based on what other people think. Someone assessing reliability has to know why things are reliable...
It is simply because they are biased and dumb, let's face it.
Yes, but, as my old boss used to say, even a policeman could work out that 'it's difficult' is no argument and that objective results are the...
Of course they are. They are appointed because they are reliable non-boat-rockers. Every time.
The choice of criteria is relevant but if criteria are wider than the set of interest they are still valid for that set unless there is evidence...
Worth remembering that statisticians tend not to understand anything about blinding of trials. Blinding is there to solve a problem with human...
It is taught in clinical pharmacology courses, if I remember rightly at the preclinical stage of basic sciences. When I was taught it we used...
I think in all these discussions we need to be open to the possibility that a diagnosis ME/CFS is applicable to two or more very different sorts...
It was White and Knoop and in the same paper they said that CBT worked through the placebo response!
It may be worth reminding people that when I presented my thoughts about the PACE trial to the University College London Division of Medicine...
But that would mean that the 'wider' population was in fact the narrower population in that regard.
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