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Honestly, I think we sufficiently crossed the line that it should be assumed that Wessely and his gang systematically interfere in ways that are completely antithetical to ethical professional conduct, and that he likely interfered with every single one of them unless proven otherwise. It's...

"<Redacted> and some PACE authors" is some funny attempt at censoring. Basically this joke from the Simpsons: "For privacy's sake, let's call her Lisa S. No, that's too obvious. Let's say L. Simpson".

If that's because the areas involved are typically described as involved in motivation, then that means that traditional description is wrong or incomplete, not that there is such a finding. If anything, I actually see elevated motivation, taking it to relentless levels. I have never experienced...

I find this to be one of the most frustrating part of this lying ideology, because it's so damn obvious. The very best they can do ever do is barely reach the minimal threshold they settle on for effectiveness, except those are so low that they are useless for all intents and purposes even if...

Those are two blatant lies, and actually contradict one another. No system can deliver good outcomes by lying so much about what they do, this is completely incompatible with the general mission of health care, and specifically of the aims of this program. Might as well just go to a casino and...

That "policy" is a sham. The PACE authors were exempted from it by pretending to share them on a platform where they have veto over who can access it. Academia itself remains extremely important but damn is so much of it a total sham, and nowhere more than in non-biological medical research.

Two giant red flags not just of a study obviously not worth approving, but of people who don't even understand the basics of science. The study cited about beliefs is obviously junk and has been debunked, it's as ridiculous to cite it as going with the equally debunked "masks don't work" junk...

This is impressively delusional. It obviously does no such thing. This nonsense needs to be shut down entirely.

'Competitive' doesn't really describe things accurately. When we look at the giant mass of junk pseudoscience in evidence-based medicine, I don't see any competition happening. The same derivative nonsense dominates, unopposed, despite absolutely no merit. In psychosomatic/biopsychosocial...

Given Wessely's predictable behavior, he will likely try to bully him. I hope he shares that, too. I don't understand why so many people get themselves so openly intimidated in a context in which exposing it is basically a professional obligation. I'm sure a lot of people have stories like this...

One odd thing here, since defamation is a personal grievance, wouldn't Wessely have to cover the costs himself? It would make no sense for an institution to pay for personal grievances, especially in a context that is literally protected by academic freedom. Even the book, though not published...

Possibly a reference to the 3(?) papers they published out of it? Just mixing trial and paper in the process?

Anyone think it would be worth writing to the journal, diplomatically pointing out that their cowardice is a clear breach of academic freedom? They can't not understand that this is wrong.

UK defamation laws are super weird and basically tuned for precisely this kind of abuse of power, but here this also involves an academic journal and so would fall squarely under academic freedom as a protection. No doubt they would have extended him some special right of retort, but likely he...

It's frankly not even close. AI is not ready yet to replace physicians, even for the non-physical roles like diagnosis, but once it is, it will be seriously a revealing moment, the sheer speed at which the vast majority of people will not only flock to it but explicitly prefer it over real...

This is so bizarre to read living in a free society, this concept is completely foreign to me, sounds like something straight out of a dystopian satire. Let him write his own damn book if he doesn't like what someone has written about him. I have no idea why people comply in advance like this...

Obviously, and perfectly expected if you know anything about it. This is why you don't judge a model based on what the model says. Every model is consistent with itself. What the hell is this high school level garbage study and why aren't there adults who stop this nonsense?

If true, this would be pretty ironic because a popular argument from the "immunity debt" crowd has been an unhinged "what if not being regularly infected by common pathogens leads to more autoimmune disease?" fear campaign. The indirect benefits of vaccines continue to be impressive. What a...

Cross-posted on the "posts from reddit" thread but this is relevant to Austria.