Nervous is good. Its associated with better performance. That's exactly the point. That's what the researchers hypothesised. As to whether the...
Again, if you can swing it around, you can say that the "false belief" hypothesis has attracted considerable attention and research dollars, so if...
As I understand it, the claim by the BPS mob has never been that MECFS is a genuine psychological illness - not in the sense that say, depression...
Here is the apt participant manual ( I don't seem to have a copy of the therapist's manual for APT):
Hmm. I don't mean to criticise Neil Harrison specifically. A lot of otherwise good researchers who just lose it when it comes to making causal...
Its quite wily. Its says: This suggests some are more depressed than people with a chronic disease.
Here is the bit that you still need to attend to (from my last post): Remember, trials last for around 1-2 seconds.
From my reading, this article is far from neutral, but is very cleverly written to appear so by paying lip service to some alternative...
@Jonathan Edwards, I'm not sure about the concept of a "background mindset", it sounds very vague to me. What you're describing seems to be the...
All the trials involve the same task - name the colour a word is written in. What differs is whether the word itself provides distracting...
Yea, researchers do push the boundaries of what's acceptable. Like not reporting studies or manipulations that didn't turn out as hoped. That's...
@Adrian's right. Luckily, in an event-related fMRI (which this was), all these things get factored out, because you’re only interested in the...
Valid point. But then, if I were going to bother to lie, I wouldn't be producing shit articles like those ones. My articles would all have large...
Nice account, @Cheshire.
Sure. I've been on the drug since early march, and on 1600mg since mid April (up from 1200mg). In the six months before I started the cimetidine,...
Yes, I think the solution is probably not at the peer review/publication end of things (in any case, that wouldn't work retrospectively). I think...
Yes, I definitely think there are huge costs to patients with this whole BPS enterprise. Long-term costs associated with incorrect hypotheses that...
Liked by Michael Sharpe I see. They're pretty tight, those BPS folks. Still, lots of FND patients are genuinely grateful to Stone for at least...
I'd say yes, if stats were the pivotal issue that distinguished poor from good research. But I think it almost never is. Recently, I've been...
Seems like an interesting contribution. In a previous study, this group found higher average CRP levels in people with post-treatment Lyme disease...
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