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    Government and Insurance companies - establishing the BPS model

    When I got to the bit that says "UNUM Provident was at the centre of UK welfare reform as early as 1992 under the Thatcher government..." I thought that the other facts stated should be checked before accepting. Thatcher was well into an unhappy retirement by 1992; we have John Major and the...
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    BBC video, 'when mental health gets physical'

    I do find the abuse of language in these videos rather trying. All the talk by Payne of "recovery" not being "cure". According to an on line dictionary one of the definitions of recovery is "restoration or return to any former and better state or condition". This is what most patients would...
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    Tues 20 Feb | UK parliamentary debate: PACE trial and its effect on people with ME - Carol Monaghan, MP

    I think the Minister was wrong to suggest that the use of CBT and GET in the treatment of ME has been a controversial issue for 10 years. I would put it a 28.
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    Q&A: Avindra Nath, MD

    Didn't White do quite a lot of research on post EBV fatigue, and comparison with those who recovered?
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    Research in progress: A Unified Mechanism for Functional Neurological Symptoms, 2015 to 2018, Edwards et al

    This is what St Georges website has to say: Professor Mark Edwards is a neurologist who studies how the brain controls movement and how abnormalities of movement occur in people with neurological illness He leads the Motor Control and Movement Disorder Group which is comprised of neurologists...
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    Research in progress: A Unified Mechanism for Functional Neurological Symptoms, 2015 to 2018, Edwards et al

    How on earth did this get funded? Would they not need to show that they have a proposed treatment model to enable them to show the proposed effect? In the absence of such a workable model what can they show?
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    Open data and the role of citizen scientists in ME/CFS research

    Is neurosis a form of insanity? There is clear written evidence that they consider the illness to be neurasthenia, which seems to be considered by some a neurosis. What is not clear is precisely what Wessely, White and Sharpe thought neurasthenia to be, apart from what we suffer from. Sorry...
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    Oxford criteria

    It may be that of the potential scribes for this conference Sharpe was the worst possible choice for people with ME. Here is a further offering of a collaboration with Hawton. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/000579679400077W Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: a cognitive approach "On...
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    Psychological Stress and Mitochondria: A Systematic Review Picard, Martin PhD; McEwen, Bruce S. PhD

    Shaken, but not stirred?
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    Trial By Error: QMUL and FOI; Nature and Cochrane; the Pineapple Fund

    It would also be interesting to know the relevant contractual provisions. One would not expect a project lead to be able simply to walk away without having fully briefed someone, especially where there are ongoing contentious matters with potential costs to the organisation.
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    Oxford criteria

    Given the predominance of psychiatrists amongst the names appended to the 1991 paper, I thought it would be interesting to look at them a little closer. They are: Sharpe, Clare, David, Hawton, McDonald, Wessely and White. In addition there was a psychologist AP Smith. It should have been...
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    PACE trial data

    Unless something has changed radically in the last nine years the MRC clearly feels it has something to hide. Most here will probably be familiar with this note by Margaret Williams from 2009 but it is worth bringing the oddities discussed to the attention of any to whom it is not known...
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    Activity pacing: moving beyond taking breaks and slowing down (Antcliff et al. 2018)

    I thought we lost the word pacing with PACE. All quite deliberately.
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    PACE trial data

    Lord Winston apparently has a son called Joel. EDIT It is probably unlikely that this is he, but given the speech made in the House of Lords on an earlier occasion by Lord Winston it would be unfortunate if this were a relative of his.
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    On chronic fatigue syndrome and nosological categories, 2018, Shoenfeld et al

    Is sufficient known to allow the apparently confident statement that CFS is a heterogeneous disease? This seems to mean that CFS is a single disease which might be reached via differing aetiologies. I thought that there was insufficient evidence to be sure that CFS did represent a single...
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    Call to Action: Westminster Hall (UK) (parliamentary) debate: PACE trial and its effect on people with ME - Carol Monaghan February 20

    As in "the legend?" "What's afoot?"
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    PACE trial data

    The drawer has a key to it?
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    PACE trial data

    The tactical retirement seems to have become something of a theme in public life, though usually in connection with pension considerations.
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    My letter to the CDC concerning Kaiser Permanente still recommending GET

    People will make up their own minds about the interpretation of that paper by Wessely at al. I would just put it into context. The paper was published in 1989. This is around the time that both Wessely and White published papers discussing chronic fatigue in terms of neurasthenia, admitting...
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    My letter to the CDC concerning Kaiser Permanente still recommending GET

    To say that something is "in general" counterproductive, is to admit that in some cases it may be correct. One cannot base a treatment regimen solely on the general. The effects on specific cases have to be addressed. http://bjgp.org/content/bjgp/39/318/26.full.pdf
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