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There's another [edit] albeit rather halfhearted one: Bull, L. (2007). Sunflower therapy for children with specific learning difficulties (dyslexia): A randomised, controlled trial. Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, 13(1), 15–24. doi:10.1016/j.ctcp.2006.07.003...

Came across when I searched something else in another thread. Dorothy Bishop referred to the study in a reply to @dave30th on Virology Blog: "I agree that it is important to be cautious where outcome measures are based on subjective report, as apparent improvement may not be mirrored by...

Commenary / rebuttal paper: Mathews, M. O., Thomas, E., & Yeung, A. (2009). Rebuttal paper to “Sunflower Therapy for children with specific learning difficulties (dyslexia): A randomised, controlled trial.” Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, 15(1), 44–46...

(This is a reference to the discussion on bias due to a lack of blinding here.) Bull, L. (2007). Sunflower therapy for children with specific learning difficulties (dyslexia): A randomised, controlled trial. Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, 13(1), 15–24...

Three 'patient research partners' are co-authors. Another co-author is Eleanor Stein. Hm. (I don't understand how something "was shown to be improved" when it's acknowledged that the studies had "small sample sizes, heterogeneous diagnostic criteria, and a high risk of bias". Isn't there a...

Only had a look last year on his website and liked that part of it: https://www.sciencefictions.org/corrections

https://twitter.com/StuartJRitchie/status/1408138353250385932

Did you see this @dave30th ?

Has this been posted yet? Godlee F. How can we manage covid fatigue? BMJ 2021; 373 :n1610 doi:10.1136/bmj.n1610 https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1610 Over to Postcovid & ME: "Up to 376 000 people in the UK have reported ongoing symptoms more than 12 months after contracting the virus...

Or perhaps -- just putting all the findings together is really confusing and gives rather the impression that it isn't an organic disease, but sifting those findings, focusing on the very few findings that seem plausible and view them in the context of a clearly observable specific pattern of...

Information below the article: Competing interests: None declared. Provenance and peer review: Commissioned; externally peer reviewed. It's clear from her Tweets that she was 'briefed' for her article. https://twitter.com/Melanie_Newman/status/1408039875656491015 It seems odd to me that...

Don't feel up to write a comment myself. In case it could be helpful -- here are the references to Trish's response to and comment on some of Garner's BMJ pieces: 1) response: https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3026/rr-7 2) comment...

Rapid response by Ian Stirling: https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1559/rr-1

Trial By Error: Did the IBS Trial Really Show that Web-Based CBT Offered Significant Clinical Effectiveness? https://www.virology.ws/2021/06/24/trial-by-error-did-the-ibs-trial-really-show-that-web-based-cbt-offered-significant-clinical-effectiveness/#comments

BMJ article: "The insurance company Swiss Re—with which Sharpe makes clear that he has no financial link—asked him to do a presentation on early observations at the clinic. The slides from his talk showed that long covid encompasses a range of conditions, with symptoms influenced by biological...

"Published in 2011 in the Lancet, the Pace trial found that both CBT and GET led to greater improvements in some participants than medical care alone." I wonder how often journalists use similarly vague wording when they report on a large and influential study: ...found that the investigated...

That's true. But I think does only apply for etiological research (epidemiology and pathomechanisms) not in clinical trials, i.e. reserach on treatments/ interventions as discussed here?

....and highlight scientific credibility: always mention the University of Edinburgh and who funds the study + provide corresponding links

I think for all those points it would be good to have different texts for different target groups, but in addition, perhaps there should be a text without a specific target group. I'll try to explain: ad 5) -- I think that could be a text distributed by personal emails as well as by snail-mail/...

Maybe it's not possible to directly engage with many of them. [Edit: Apologies -- just realized that I'm being bit repetitive, but there will be a new suggestion in the post below this one.] I think many of them won't engage with social media networks on chronic illness either. So what's...