So you've been talking to another Snow Leopard behind my back!?! :jawdrop: What are friends for, if not giving fake awards?
If professionals aren't serving the needs of their clients, then who are they serving?
Getting your mates to award you a prize is a great idea! Looking forward to my 'best talking snow leopard' award from you guys!
NICE won't change their mind until the article is retracted. I'd bet a reasonable amount of money on it. Those in charge of government policy...
Nope. The average medical practitioner (for example, the GP I saw who looked up CFS on Wikipedia) does not look very deep at the evidence and...
I wonder, do these authors intend to publish this in a scholarly journal?
No news is good news?
They're afraid of the big loss of face, namely they'd have to admit they had an article up for years that didn't meet their quality standards....
The issue is that the (former) editor was demanding changes or a voluntary retraction by the authors (to avoid loss of face for both the journal...
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence... The woman in that phantom pain case study had a hand previously and the burning pain could...
Hi all, keep in mind, the author of this paper is a disciple of Ted Kaptchuk and his "powerful placebo" pseudoscience....
I don't understand, are they retrospectively trying to block access to those two documents?
No, they're saying they aren't going to include trials without a comparison group (eg "treatment as usual"). What is notable is not that they...
If you want to claim that, you have to test it with a model - how much of the variance does it predict? How sensitive and specific is the...
The problem is that they are comparing apples with oranges. The ramping and encouragement matters a great deal if they claim to be measuring...
Notably, 185 of the 257 patients were excluded due to high blood pressure or heart failure... The hyperventilation explanation doesn't make much...
*cough* unrandomised.
Quantum fatigue sounds so sciencey!
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It is important to point out that there is a big difference between correlations at a static point in time and correlations in an unblinded...
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