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3%, sounds about right, it easily falls into any reasonable confidence interval, given the inability to actually measure anything. So it's more of a real zero, adjusted upward for bias and feelings. Subjective ratings on a 1-10 scale have a minimum 10-20% imprecision to them, since it's...

Not the Romanian journal of experimental psychiatry (or whatever it was) but it's close.

It seems not to be common knowledge that not only is this standard practice in psychosomatic "medicine", it's literally all there ever is because active interventions can't be controlled so they are all technically sort of within-group. It's hard to tell because when you point this out most...

In a tweet, as a response to whether PACE accounted for a placebo effect. Can't search for it but it's probably still there. IIRC he said "one of the most powerful interventions we have". Which may be technically true, in that these people truly have nothing more powerful than literally the...

My rather firm opinion after years seeing it validated is that it's an imprecision error that comes from not measuring something real. So it simply doesn't exist at all, it's an illusion physicians want to see because it grants them magical healing powers from simply being there. If you try the...

Henrik still going around making stuff up, but interesting that there are a few critical replies, to which he obviously doesn't reply. Of course RecoveryNorge is known for rejecting any "recovery" stories that do not promote their system. No idea what he's doing sending the Bat signal to those...

Since they can't really help themselves and always reveal what they consider to be harassment, criticism for things they did, it really sounds like they're asking not to be held responsible as they exert power over other people. The opposite side of power is responsibility, without...

It somehow gets newspapers to publish whiney grievances op-eds as if they're a news report so hard to fault them for abusing a formula that works 100% of the time. You do have to question why a newspaper would publish a whiny grievance op-ed of no journalistic value, though, that's the...

Looks like within-arm comparisons are all the rage, likely because of how easily they allow uninterpretable results to be interpreted in whatever direction whoever tipped the scale wanted it to tip. Especially on commonly misdiagnosed vague issues that are notoriously subject to natural...

A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Key Points Question What is the placebo effect magnitude in different treatment modalities used for management of patients with treatment-resistant depression? Findings In this systematic review and meta-analysis of 3228 patients with...

It really has, so much that the author listed all the success this gave Wessely at the end of the article. It was very successful for them. At our expense, but they got more than they could have hoped for on their own merit, and that's just success to some people. Same thing for Horton and the...

Ah, Sense about Science, who are still very confused about science. And Spiked. So no doubt just putting in a favor to his mate Wessely to influence NICE. The old boys' club clubs along, doesn't care that it's clubbing sick people, in fact seems to enjoy it. Are SAS still in the business of...

Honestly there are no words for this kind of offensive hubris, this is pure ignorant bigotry and incompetence. This is someone utterly incapable of understanding that other people have a different perspective and life experience than their own, makes everything about him even when it doesn't...

EBM in a nutshell. It's just a label.

This is interesting in how it makes the point of the "fatigue" services being "acceptable", even being portrayed positively, despite being useless. And how it creates a cycle of hopium, despite many tries, despite the next try being exactly the same as the prior ones, that person still holds on...

Mostly just to keep track, if ever that becomes useful. The same formulaic tripe, copied-and-pasted thousands of times over, with the same intent, the same biases, the same outcomes every time.

Guy shown to be misguided and ignorant on issue decides to double down on his misguided ignorance. It's maddening that reality doesn't factor in at all. It's just all opinion and ignorance speculation.

There's a big typo in the title, it's missing a few words: "The BPS model of illness, a model whose time has come to pass". The BPS model is literally responsible for the stagnation of medicine in this area. This is like arguing to throw a gigantic cistern of fuel on top of a fire because the...

No need to read beyond that.