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This may help answer those questions. https://www.coyneoftherealm.com/2017/06/07/nice-guidelines-are-discrepant-with-meta-analyses-and-based-on-political-considerations-an-exchange/

Indian man sleeps 300 days a year. https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/rajasthan-rare-disorder-axis-hypersomnia-kumbhkarna-1829228-2021-07-17 From (£) https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rip-van-winkle-of-india-sleeps-for-three-weeks-out-of-four-qg89w9v9l

From the article: Is it possible to measure accurately how my brain anticipates and monitors what I do?

That's interesting, because going back to the 80s and early 90s, 100,000 was the figure generally used.

I did a brief search on Newman. She has done previous work for the BMJ. She's also written articles for 'The Bureau of Investigative Journalism' on FII. EG: https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2018-04-18/treating-fii-the-gosh-approach...

How the Lancet lost our trust Stuart Ritchie The Spectator (UK) 26/06/2021 A few of us have tried to get Ritchie interested in the PACE trial, but he has previously refused. But since it now seems to support his argument, he does cautiously mention it...

Inherent bias?

Someone who helped him has already mentioned this.

Therapeutic illusion more like.

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-05600-002

All the material I obtained from that FOIA request is now available here. https://www.mediafire.com/folder/d5tryetu1l2mn/MRC

Tom, one file is 20MB, so I have done an upload. Everything I got from that FOI is here. https://www.mediafire.com/folder/d5tryetu1l2mn/MRC

Pretty sure I got that with an FOI. I'll check files and get back to you.

Direct link to ME Awareness Week page: https://measussex.org.uk/me-awareness-week-may-10-to-16th/

Very good points I think, Barry.

Coyne likes to quote this study. Active Albuterol or Placebo, Sham Acupuncture, or No Intervention in Asthma https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1103319

And in fact they showed this in the SMILE trial. They used the same flawed trial design as they had for PACE to test outright woo and found it too had the same effect: it didn't change the underlying illness but succeeded in persuading a small number of patients to say that they felt a bit better.

Thanks for the responses. I finally got a thread written on Twitter to send him and his account has been deleted. Did he get a bit of a pounding on there after the article?

They should provide this on request. They should also automatically treat such a request under the FOI. If you have no luck @PhysiosforME post back and let us know what they say.

Column (paywalled) by James Marriott in The Times. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lets-end-the-stigma-of-psychosomatic-illness-whfdlwhph Anyone know whether that 'a third of outpatients...' is right? Or where it's from? @dave30th perhaps? I think the article shows what we're up against...