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Thanks, I forgot about the comments section, which is full of nutters. Must copy this exchange here before it's removed:

We all know we are ill despite the absence of obvious biomarkers, as would anyone who had ever listened to us. We have known for decades. Nobody ever had any business putting about a "no abnormalities = no problem" narrative in the first place. And in fact they didn't, they said "no...

I'll go along with that. How many ways can it be taken apart? I'll start with small sample size.

Looks like either Carol Monaghan or Westminster Hall are now officially "emotional". NICE is a watchdog is it? Well that explains why we have all been robbed of so many years while NICE was asleep or chewing on a tasty bone someone chucked it. BBC article headed by a picture of a typical ME...

How lucky people with other illnesses are that at least they don't have to listen to such drivel. "I don't think cancer's really working for me, so I've decided to ask it a few questions and make it go away". FFS.

Are they doing a follow-up study to show that CBT can reduce death and injury?

34 comments, all supportive so far, the only guy who wrote a silly one has deleted it again. Excellent article. A pity journalists have to be personally affected before they start writing sensible articles about ME. I wouldn't wish ME on anyone, but it's a sad fact that after decades of...

Nice work @Webdog

Wow, that looks impressive.

I see my good friend Amol has contributed an analysis to this article: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46486707 in which he writes about Question Time: There is his favourite buzzword again - "editorial integrity". Despite his tendency to dictional obfuscation, the paucity of his...

What the f. does "medically ill" mean? Is it another phrase made up by the BPS brigade so they can say "of course you're medically ill, your therapist understands that, we don't distinguish between the mind and body here, it's all medical ..."

Having forgiven everybody, can you imagine the smug smile on her face? How many furious people don't have cancer? I'm fucking livid, and I don't appear to have.

Fake maths.

Eye dont no watt yew mean.

Me too, I've only noticed it recently. I've always been meticulous about spelling, but recently I've found that after writing a post and reading it over one last time, I find things like "here" instead of "hear" etc. I think it's getting worse. I spelt a word with a "y" instead of an "i" a...

But I could never have whipped out the source document with the ruthless speed and efficiency of @JohnTheJack, plus before today I had assumed that Michael Sharpe was just boasting about being able to balance on a horse.

Hopefully they are giving them enough rope to hang themselves.

Um, yeah, so are we. How do we report it? "Equipoise". That word has a familiar ring to it.

Well just for you I have just listened to it again and re-lived the trauma. It irritates me because of the way the subject matter was dealt with, and the style of presentation. First the style of presentation. I teach BA students how to give presentations, and one of the things I'm quite strict...

This could be based on Cochrane deciding to take at face value the authors' estimate of when the imminent resubmission would be made. If so this leaves plenty of scope for footdragging and Cochrane being surprised that the resubmission is taking longer than the authors' initially estimated.