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Carefully designed to produce results which are in keeping with the previous studies and investigators’ clinical preconceptions?

I suspect Paul Garner’s policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

Sorry, will probably need to be someone else this time. I’m completely stuffed. My advice, FWIW: keep it under 250 words and try to send it ASAP. The cut off for Saturday’s Guardian will be about 12 noon Friday. They’re unlikely to publish a response on Monday unless there is more correspondence...

After 6 weeks (they say they normally reply within 10 working days) I’ve finally received a predictably inadequate response from the BBC to my complaint: I will now refer my complaint to Ofcom.

This is an interesting account of the opponent system in Sweden: https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2016/06/16/the-opponent-system-my-experience-at-a-swedish-phd-defence/ Edit: It’s completely different to anything I’ve ever heard of with the “opponent” actually presenting the PhD...

More from Prof Greenhalgh: This is the link to the Guardian article she criticised: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/mar/05/nhs-long-covid-patients-after-pandemic And today this:

I see that the extra line has now been added to the review: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD001027.pub2 The editorial note now reads: Thanks again @Caroline Struthers I wonder if you might like to bring this to Busse’s attention @Michiel Tack. [edited to correct...

I attempted to summarise the whole thing in fewer than 280 characters:

It was @JohnTheJack. There is a good blog on “whatever happened to actigraphy?” by @Lucibee: https://lucibee.wordpress.com/2018/05/09/pace-trial-whatever-happened-to-actigraphy/

He was also chair of the GMC from September 2014 until January 2019 (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Stephenson and https://www.gmc-uk.org/news/news-archive/new-chair-of-the-general-medical-council). He would also have been member of the Council before he became chair, so he would...

Yes. This was my reply to their initial rejection of my complaint, to which the above was their repsonse: “Dear Cat, Thank you for your reply. You may not be surprised to learn that I disagree with your decision. The blog clearly went far beyond one person’s reflections on their individual...

The BMJ’s editor in chief has now rejected my complaint about PG’s blog: I’m not minded to escalate it to COPE as its website states: “The primary role of the Facilitation and Integrity Subcommittee is not to adjudicate complaints, but instead to facilitate the resolution of disputes in a...

I’m wondered if this might be the case. Thanks to Dr Strain for admitting he misspoke and apologising. I’ve asked him if he will contact the BBC to correct the record.

Hi Nina, Thanks for your reply and thank you for all the positive work you’ve done. I didn’t mean to be critical of you. Not at all. I just find it frustrating if/when people get the impression that if only people adopt the right approach their ME will improve. I wish I’d been given better...

Disappointing that there is no mention of severe ME/CFS or the fact that many of us don’t improve whatever we do. I also didn’t like “physical v psychiatric” framing: But otherwise quite good. Dr Strain: I’d be interested to know what grant applications he had turned that have now been...

Or as Garner wrote in his June 23 BMJ blog: “Health services are largely institutionally prejudiced against people with chronic fatigue and ME, and in some cases these attitudes are framing the service response to covid-19.” So he recognised the systemic or institutional prejudice – a very...