I was specifically referring to the performance at the ventilatory threshold, not VO2Peak. The conclusions that the authors are making about...
I think it is important not to speculate as to the reasons why until we are told more details...
Yes, the real placebo effect is a transient reduction in pain due to conditioning of the bodies endorphin system. There is some biological...
Yes, an RER of 1 or 1.1 or whatever does not indicate that participants have necessarily reached a true VO2Max. To clarify my view, I do believe...
The ventilatory threshold is much more interesting than merely the turning point to anerobic energy production. So much more is going on at that...
Many patients in these studies were not exercised enough to reach true VO2Max. RER=1.1, age predicted HR etc are merely suggestive. Patients...
This study did reproduce the major consistent finding so far: reduced performance at the ventilatory threshold. The 8th study so far if we include...
Regression to the mean is not a placebo effect, it is a bias that is often falsely attributed to the placebo effect.
I was under the impression that the blog post was the article, just not in print yet.
The "placebo response" in patients is highly likely to be the same as it is in any other group of people. The problem is a variety of reporting...
It means that patients performed better on the 2nd CPET (72 hours after) than the first CPET, so there was no effect of PEM on performance after...
Again, how does that explain this? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15784798
Or is the same old cognitive mistake that many of us make? Assume your preconceptions are correct and try to cherry pick the facts to suit.
Wessely/Deale/Chalder 1995 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7709961 Which is totally contradictory to their conclusion from their review of...
Yes, as I said in my first post - all the hate demonstrated against antivaxxers on the internet is hardly going to change their mind. All of those...
Looking at Sharpe's piece, it seems those standards are fairly low.
Here are the number of diagnosed cases of vaccine preventable illnesses and number of deaths in the USA from 1950 onwards....
Because they lack knowledge of those fields. Many doctors for example, don't understand the necessity of double-blinding to control bias in...
The authors of that review don't seem to know what a "placebo response" even is. Changes in subjective outcome measures in a blinded control group...
What does this mean? Were these patients who submitted Disqus responses? Or did they deliberately invite patients who agree with Sharpe to respond?
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