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So sad. Best wishes to all her family and friends.

Chew-Graham was one of the FINE researchers, and pretty much everything I've seen from her on CFS has been terrible. Here's Tuller's blog on FINE: http://www.virology.ws/2015/11/09/trial-by-error-continued-why-has-the-pace-studys-sister-trial-been-disappeared-and-forgotten/

IF they did have figures, what are the chances that they'd have been presented in a misleading way anyway.

The more the merrier. Still seems weird that UK politicians are more willing to speak out about the problems with PACE than those employed in the UK to scrutinise research.... I know how broken UK science is, but I just can get my expectations low enough. [edit: Alternatively, maybe my...

I think that this is something that would be particularly worth contacting MPs about.

And I think that this fits in with Action for ME's seemingly thoughtless attitude of 'lets be positive and do something!'

I hope that before any other patient groups join up with Action for ME on this, they will ask about what Action for ME is doing to ensure that the problems with the PACE trial are not just brushed under the carpet by the UK research establishment.

I suspect that this is not the sort of question Corbyn would put to May. It would be very funny if he did though!

Isn't Paul McCrone a health economist, or something like that?

I think this was more cautiously phrased, and better for it, than some of the earlier Topper articles "actively promoted ME as a partly psychological, medically unexplained illness; the PACE trial is testament to this." I think it's usually best to avoid that whole 'psych vs bio' thing, but...

Not sure which thread is most appropriate for this, but the 'leading experts' letter was released: http://tillymoments.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/bbc-should-check-their-information.html Chalder, Crawley, McCrone, Sharpe & Wessely, claiming there is "good evidence from multiple studies and...

Thanks for all your work @chicaguapa

Thanks to all those who were involved in this. I've got a load of tabs open with things to catch up on over the next week!

I've got some prejudices that discourage me from reading this.

A couple of follow-up letters on this, including one mentioning the harmful influence of the insurance industry: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/11/disabled-people-facing-government-hostility-in-the-uk

Heading for number one?! Great work Robert.

It's not listed anywhere on their front-page.

BACME chooses to link to Colin Barton's Sussex and Kent ME Association, Action for ME, and reMEmber. That's not a good hit-rate.

That does sound like a stretch. It would be interesting to see how they're justifying that claim.

The evidence around harms from CBT & GET is pretty weak so it's hard to say anything much with any real confidence.