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not too sharp, Sharpe...

and @dave30th

A twitter search for " ben goldacre "PACE" " yields many good past tweets from the vexatious hordes. https://twitter.com/search?l=&q=ben%20goldacre%20%22PACE%22&src=typd&lang=en

"with an NHS report advising that 50% of ESA claimants had attempted suicide at some point.8" https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/shocking-nhs-stats-show-nearly-half-esa-claimants-have-attempted-suicide/" There are TV ads in the US by lawyers to policy holders to sue UNUM for unlawful denial...

Welcome, Diane. Sometimes this place seems a little like Through the Looking-Glass “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many...

good comment- "I was on the Pace Trial allocated to cbt."... "What annoys me is the way that my data and that of the other participants was twisted to fit their narratives"...

Types of MUS •Irritable bowel syndrome (High intensity CBT) •Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Hi CBT & GET) •Chronic Pain (CBT in integrated pain management) •MUS not otherwise specified (Broad based CBT) http://www.yhscn.nhs.uk/media/PDFs/mhdn/Mental Health/IAPT-LTC/1. YH IAPT-LTC Slides -...

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@dave30th FYI, in case you have not seen this yet- https://www.s4me.info/threads/spanish-elites-rally-in-support-of-data-manipulation-jan-2019-by-leonid-schneider-for-better-science.7946/

also from that article- "In a finding that surprised the paper’s authors, the downgrading of female pain was driven by female participants, who were more likely than men to say that the pain of the subject was less severe when told she was a girl." "In the new study, the gender of the young...

Good heartening debate, IMO, but I had the same reaction as Mary Dimmock-

Thanks Dave. I seem to recall that the professor asked for donations and about $24 came in. Anyway, nobody was more surprised and pleased than me when the crowdfunding worked so well.

@dave30th Would you remind me/us about this 2011 article of yours? Did you make any attempts to get it published elsewhere? How much would you have been paid, and how much did you get in donations? thanks http://www.virology.ws/2011/11/23/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-and-the-cdc-a-long-tangled-tale/

"The Bristol University vice chancellor, for his part, has filed multiple complaints with Berkeley to try to shut me up." I think that's creepy.

I think it would be better to separate a discussion of strategies for media, etc. from these blogs of one patient's opinions.

As I understand it, it is based on a chronic infection.